Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy written question – answered at on 12 October 2017.
Dan Jarvis
Labour, Barnsley Central
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what recommendations the British Coal pension schemes trustees have made on the current 50/50 surplus arrangements; and whether he plans to reform the arrangements in line with such recommendations.
Richard Harrington
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy)
No recent recommendations have been made in respect of surplus sharing arrangements for the Mineworkers’ Pension Scheme and no reform is planned. The current arrangements continue to work well for all parties.
Yes1 person thinks so
No35 people think not
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