Opposition Day — Public Sector Pensions — 8 Dec 2011 at 15:54
The majority of MPs voted in favour of making public sector pensions less generous.
The motion rejected by the majority of MPs in this vote was:
- That this House
- recognises and appreciates the valuable work done by public sector workers;
- believes that they should receive pensions which are affordable, sustainable and fair;
- further believes that the changes announced since June 2010 by the Government are primarily for the purposes of deficit reduction rather than a move to secure the long-term sustainability of public sector pensions;
- notes that these changes are unfair on public sector workers who will have to work longer, pay more and receive less in their pension when they retire;
- further notes the findings of the National Audit Office that the 2007-08 pensions re-negotiation changes will generate estimated savings of 14 per cent. by 2059-60 and the conclusions of the House of Commons Committee of Public Accounts’ Thirty-eighth Report of this Session on the Impact of the 2007-08 changes to public sector pensions (HC 833), that the cost of public service pensions has reduced substantially because of these changes;
- agrees with criticism in both reports of the failure to develop a long-term strategy for the role of pensions in recruitment and retention to the public sector;
- condemns the Government’s threat to cut devolved administrations’ budgets if they do not implement the Government’s immediate levy on pensions contributions; and
- calls on the Government to reverse its unfair changes to public sector pensions.
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