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100354

	registered interest
	date	22/10/2014
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Teachers: Pensions
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if her Department will provide funding for schools and colleges providing education for young people under the age of 19 to meet the additional costs arising from the (a) additional employer contribution as set out in the Teachers' Pensions (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No. 2) Regulations 2014 and (b) higher national insurance contributions which will be paid from 1 April 2016 as a result of the Pension Act 2014; and if she will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
	tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
	uin	211581
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/10/2014 answer text <p>The Department for Education is asking schools, like other employers across the public sector, to contribute more towards their employees’ pensions to ensure that the cost of public sector pension schemes do not fall unfairly on taxpayers. Our protection of the core schools budget in real terms means that schools are well-placed to cope with changes in their costs in 2015-16. The Department has also deferred the introduction of the increase to September 2015, giving schools an additional five months to plan how they will meet the additional pensions cost.</p><p>In addition, the Chancellor confirmed that the next spending review will take into account the cost to employers of the reforms to the Teachers’ Pension Scheme and the implications for National Insurance.</p> answering member constituency Yeovil answering member printed Mr David Laws question first answered 27/10/2014 11:01:14 answering member 1473 label Biography information for Mr David Laws
	tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

106270

	registered interest
	date	04/11/2014
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Teachers: Pensions
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department has any plans to extend participation in the Teachers' Pension Scheme to teachers employed by or through supply teacher agencies.
	tabling member constituency	Coventry North East
	tabling member printed	Mr Bob Ainsworth
	uin	213211
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/11/2014 answer text <p>Supply teachers, who are employed by accepted employers, are able to participate in the Teachers’ Pension Scheme, and already do so. These are most commonly teachers employed by local authorities to provide supply cover to maintained schools. The employer-employee relationship is important because the employer is responsible for meeting a number of obligations, which include paying both member and employer contributions to the scheme.</p><p>Schools and local authorities are responsible for the recruitment of their supply teachers, including decisions over whether to use private agencies to recruit and manage them. If a teacher is supplied by a private agency, this is a private commercial arrangement between the school and the agency and as such there is no employer-employee relationship between the school and teacher. It is for schools and local authorities to determine how they engage supply teachers and, depending on whether this is through private agencies or accepted employers, whether participation in the scheme is permitted.</p> answering member constituency Yeovil answering member printed Mr David Laws question first answered 10/11/2014 16:57:38 answering member 1473 label Biography information for Mr David Laws
	tabling member	306 label Biography information for Mr Bob Ainsworth

1402964

	registered interest
	date	14/01/2022
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Teachers: Pensions
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether pension benefits that retired teachers are in receipt of will be protected, in a similar way that pension benefits of retired NHS workers have been since the start of the covid-19 outbreak, in the event that they return to work after being called upon by him in December 2021.
	tabling member constituency	Elmet and Rothwell
	tabling member printed	Alec Shelbrooke
	uin	104312
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/01/2022 answer text <p>Generally, retired teachers returning to the classroom following the recent call for ex-teachers to help will not be subject to potential abatement of their teachers’ pension. This is because it is expected that they will be employed by supply teacher agencies, which tend not to be participating Teacher Pensions’ Scheme (TPS) employers.</p><p>TPS abatement rules would currently apply to retired teachers, with a final salary pension, if they were to be employed directly by a participating TPS employer. However, the call for ex-teachers to help in the classroom is expected to involve short-term and/or part-time appointments. Consequently, the amount of earnings involved is unlikely to result in any adjustment to individuals’ pension benefits on account of abatement.</p><p>We do not, therefore, anticipate there being a compelling need to suspend the abatement provisions in the way that the NHS has done to facilitate the longer-term re-employment of key staff. However, the department is monitoring the situation and, if needed, we will review the policy position.</p> answering member constituency Worcester answering member printed Mr Robin Walker question first answered 24/01/2022 14:30:07 answering member 4091 label Biography information for Mr Robin Walker
	tabling member	3997 label Biography information for Sir Alec Shelbrooke

983132

	registered interest
	date	08/10/2018
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Teachers: Pensions
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the cost to schools of increasing the employer contribution to the Teachers’ Pension Scheme in each of the next five fiscal years; and what plans he has to provide additional funding to the Department for Education to meet that cost.
	tabling member constituency	Barnsley East
	tabling member printed	Stephanie Peacock
	uin	176551
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/10/2018 answer text <p>We undertake valuations of the public service pension schemes every four years. This is the first time that a full assessment of the pension schemes has been undertaken since the government introduced reformed schemes in 2015. Early indications are that the amount employers pay towards the schemes will need to increase. This is because of proposed changes to the discount rate, which is used to assess the current cost of future payments from the schemes, to reflect the Office for Budget Responsibility’s long-term growth forecasts. Further details will be known later this year.</p><p>Some increase in costs was anticipated at Budget 16, which departments and the devolved administrations will need to meet in full. Treasury will be supporting departments with any unforeseen costs for 2019/20. Further discussions will be taken forward as part of the Spending Review.</p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss question first answered 11/10/2018 13:37:48 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
	tabling member	4607 label Biography information for Stephanie Peacock

1303507

	registered interest
	date	17/03/2021
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Teachers: Pensions
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what further discussions and consultation took place with stakeholders as part of the 2014 Review of Survivor Benefits in Public Sector Pension Schemes, following the Walker v. Innospec court case, before the decision was made not to equalize benefits in the Teachers’ Pension Scheme; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Harrow West
	tabling member printed	Gareth Thomas
	uin	170522
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/03/2021 answer text <p>In July 2019, the government published its response to the Review of Survivor Benefits. Following internal discussions, the Government concluded that, beyond its decision to equalise the benefits received by surviving male same-sex and female same-sex spouses and civil partners with those received by the widows of opposite sex marriages in public service schemes, in the majority of cases, following the Supreme Court judgment in <em>Walker v Innospec</em>, it would not make any further retrospective changes to equalise survivor benefits. There was no further external consultation on the issue of male survivors of opposite sex marriages. The position has since changed following a claim brought against the Teachers’ Pension Scheme. The Department for Education will consult on regulatory amendments that give effect to a declaration agreed between the parties and made by consent by the Employment Tribunal to ensure that the surviving opposite-sex spouse or civil partner of a female member is treated in the same way as a surviving same-sex spouse or civil partner of a female member. The government believes that this difference in treatment will also need to be remedied in other public service pension schemes.</p> answering member constituency Salisbury answering member printed John Glen question first answered 23/03/2021 15:18:50 answering member 4051 label Biography information for John Glen
	tabling member	177 label Biography information for Gareth Thomas

1035215

	registered interest
	date	04/01/2019
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Teachers: Pensions
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will make it his policy to allocate additional funding for universities to help meet the increase in the Teachers' Pension Scheme contribution rate from September 2019.
	tabling member constituency	Oxford West and Abingdon
	tabling member printed	Layla Moran
	uin	205398
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/01/2019 answer text <p>The department intends to provide state-funded schools and further education providers with funding to help meet the increase in the Teachers’ Pension Scheme for the financial year 2019-20 and will be consulting to understand the effects of the increase on all other sectors, including higher education providers. Funding from 2020-21 onwards will be considered as part of the next Spending Review.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 11/01/2019 17:30:37 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
	tabling member	4656 label Biography information for Layla Moran

1007157

	registered interest
	date	14/11/2018
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Teachers: Pensions
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of introducing a phasing in period for higher education Institutions to implement the increased contribution to the teachers pension scheme.
	tabling member constituency	Blackpool South
	tabling member printed	Gordon Marsden
	uin	191299
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/11/2018 answer text <p>The department will be running a public consultation regarding the funding of the rise in employer contributions for the Teachers’ Pension Scheme and has already agreed to delay the introduction of these changes until September 2019. The department will use the consultation to better understand the impact of the proposed changes on the affected English higher education institutions to decide what, if any, action should be taken.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah question first answered 19/11/2018 16:34:54 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
	tabling member	465 label Biography information for Gordon Marsden

1006975

	registered interest
	date	14/11/2018
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Teachers: Pensions
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what representations he has received on the treatment of (a) widowers and (b) widows under the Teachers' Pension scheme since the changes were made to that scheme in April 2018.
	tabling member constituency	Bury North
	tabling member printed	James Frith
	uin	191450
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/11/2018 answer text <p>Changes were introduced to the Teachers’ Pension Scheme in April 2018 to allow for the equalisation of survivor benefits for widows. This Scheme followed the Supreme Court’s determination in the case of Walker v Innospec Limited in 2017.</p><p>Since then, the Department has received two representations from scheme members, regarding equalisation for widowers of opposite sex marriages.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 19/11/2018 17:10:36 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
	tabling member	4637 label Biography information for James Frith

1027665

	registered interest
	date	18/12/2018
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Teachers: Pensions
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what discussions he had with the education sector before deciding the quantum of uplift in Teachers' Pension Scheme contributions.
	tabling member constituency	Hazel Grove
	tabling member printed	Mr William Wragg
	uin	203387
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/12/2018 answer text <p>Department officials have discussed the changes to the Teachers’ Pension Scheme with all education trade unions and a number of employer representatives. Discussions with these groups will continue through the Teachers’ Pension Scheme Advisory Board.</p><p> </p><p>The Department is also launching a consultation in early 2019 to seek views on the impact of the changes to employer contribution costs on state-funded schools, independent schools, further education (FE) colleges and other public-funded training organisations, and universities and other Higher Education institutions (HEI) in the Teachers’ Pension Scheme, including which sectors should receive additional funding from the Government. Once the consultation has closed, the Department will make an assessment on the viability of the scheme and the number of institutions participating in the scheme.</p><p> </p><p>The Department estimates the total cost of increased employer contributions into the Teachers’ Pension Scheme to be £1.1 billion in 2019-20. This is broken down as follows: £830 million for state-funded schools, £110 million for Independent schools, £80 million for the further education sector, and £80 million for affected universities and other HEIs.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb grouped question UIN 203388 203389 203390 203391 203392 question first answered 27/12/2018 11:53:13 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
	tabling member	4429 label Biography information for Mr William Wragg

1027666

	registered interest
	date	18/12/2018
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Teachers: Pensions
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment he has made of the effect of increases in contributions to the Teachers' Pension Scheme on the number of pupils transferring into the state sector from independent schools due to the closure of independent schools.
	tabling member constituency	Hazel Grove
	tabling member printed	Mr William Wragg
	uin	203388
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/12/2018 answer text <p>Department officials have discussed the changes to the Teachers’ Pension Scheme with all education trade unions and a number of employer representatives. Discussions with these groups will continue through the Teachers’ Pension Scheme Advisory Board.</p><p> </p><p>The Department is also launching a consultation in early 2019 to seek views on the impact of the changes to employer contribution costs on state-funded schools, independent schools, further education (FE) colleges and other public-funded training organisations, and universities and other Higher Education institutions (HEI) in the Teachers’ Pension Scheme, including which sectors should receive additional funding from the Government. Once the consultation has closed, the Department will make an assessment on the viability of the scheme and the number of institutions participating in the scheme.</p><p> </p><p>The Department estimates the total cost of increased employer contributions into the Teachers’ Pension Scheme to be £1.1 billion in 2019-20. This is broken down as follows: £830 million for state-funded schools, £110 million for Independent schools, £80 million for the further education sector, and £80 million for affected universities and other HEIs.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb grouped question UIN 203387 203389 203390 203391 203392 question first answered 27/12/2018 11:53:14 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
	tabling member	4429 label Biography information for Mr William Wragg