To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government whether he plans to hold a further formal public consultation on firefighters' pensions.

Paragraph 3.3 of the current consultation states that the Department will hold further consultations during 2014 on the governance and transitional arrangements for the firefighter pension reforms.

The current consultation document, which closes on 4 July, can be found at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/consultation-on-the-regulations-to-introduce-a-new-firefighters-pension-scheme-from-april-2015 and copies have been placed in the Library of the House.