Summary
The Home Office is undertaking a consultation on Public Service
Pensions: Police Pensions (Amendment) Regulations 2022, to enact
the first phase of the remedy in the McCloud / Sargeant cases.
This consultation closes at
3pm on 2 January 2022
Consultation description
The first phase of the remedy is to make changes to the scheme
regulations, in line with the Public Service Pensions &
Judicial Offices Bill, which will close the legacy pension
schemes to future accrual from 31 March 2022 and ensure all
members who remain in service from 1 April 2022 do so as members
of the reformed scheme (“the 2015 Scheme”). This will ensure
future equal treatment going forwards.
These changes are part of the package of measures the government
is undertaking to remove the discrimination identified by the
courts in the way that the 2015 reforms were introduced for some
members.
Further information on the approach can be found in the government’s response to
the public consultation.
This consultation on the Police Pension Scheme seeks responses
from interested parties on the amendments to the regulations
needed to enact the first phase of the remedy, as set out in the
Public Service Pensions and Judicial Offices Bill. The intention
is that these come into force on 1 April 2022.
A further consultation on amendments to the Police Pension Scheme
to implement the second phase of the remedy will follow in 2022.
This will focus on implementing members having a choice of
benefits for the period which the remedy for age discrimination
applies: 1 April 2015 to 31 March 2022.
The consultation document can also be provided in Welsh. Please
email or write to the addresses below to request this.
Documents
Consultation on Police
Pension Scheme prospective remedy (accessible
version)
Consultation on Police Pension
Scheme prospective remedy
The Police Pensions (England and
Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2022 (accessible
version)
The Police Pensions (England and
Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2022
Privacy information
notice: consultation on Police Pension Scheme prospective
remedy
Ways to respond
Email to:
Policepensionspublicservicepensionsremedy@homeoffice.gov.uk
