To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether support staff of further education bodies, approved to become subsidiaries to high education institutions, will continue to have access to their local government pension scheme.

Yes, staff employed by further education corporations who are eligible for the LGPS will continue to be so if the further education body becomes a subsidiary company of a higher education institution and they are designated by their employer (either individually or on the basis that they belong to a group of employees designated) as being eligible for the LGPS.

[1] This is set out in Regulation 3 and Part 2 of Schedule 2 of the Local Government Pension Scheme Regulations 2013 http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2013/2356/contents/made