Government insists Royal Mail member protection is 'paramount'

Jenna Towler
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The restructure of the Royal Mail pension plan is essential to address its £8.4bn "huge and volatile" deficit but member protection remains "paramount", the government says.

Speaking during a House of Lords debate Conservative peer Lord De Mauley said Royal Mail's pension burden had become "completely out of proportion to the size of the business". The deficit will ...

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