Pensions minister Steve Webb has urged the European Commission to scrap its Solvency II-style proposals for pensions after official figures estimated they would cost UK schemes £450bn.
The European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority's quantitative impact survey on the Institutions for Occupational Retirement Provision Directive II estimated that UK defined benefit spon...
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