Sixth Report - Public Sector Pensions

Select Committee
Public Accounts Committee HC 289 11 June 2021
Report Status Government responded
Conclusions & Recommendations 25 items (10 recs)
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Government Response (AI assessment · 25 of 25 classified)
Accepted 10
Accepted in Part 2
Acknowledged 4
Deferred 2
Not Addressed 6
Rejected 1
Government response
Treasury minutes: Government response to the Committee of Public Accounts on the Sixth report from Session 2021-22 · published 2 Sep 2021
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Recommendations & Conclusions

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4 Recommendation Rejected
HM Treasury has done little to identify and manage the stark differences in average pensions...
Recommendation
HM Treasury has done little to identify and manage the stark differences in average pensions between genders and other groups. HM Treasury does not collect and analyse data on how pension outcomes differ across groups of scheme members or across … Read more
Government Response Summary
The government explicitly rejected the recommendation, arguing that pension differences are due to past earnings, not pension provision itself. While supporting the collection of data on drivers like the gender pay gap, it deemed collecting protected characteristics data for pension gaps irrelevant for scheme valuations and inappropriate for retrospective review.
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