Lord Hutton

Michael Bow's thoughts on public sector reform

Even full implementation of Lord Hutton's proposals to overhaul public sector pensions would not create a sustainable pension system, a Centre for Policy Studies report finds.

Proposed reforms risk seriously destabilising the NHS pension scheme as high contributors leave or take early retirement, warns BMA pension committee chairman Andrew Dearden.

Health secretary Andrew Lansley has privately attacked the government's plans to overhaul public sector pensions.

Extending talks on public sector pension reforms will not stave off strike action if the government continues its current pathway to reform state worker pensions, the Trades Union Congress says.

The Treasury has set out the government's progress on public service pension reform - announcing consultations and plans for talks with unions. Here are the key points of today's announcement.

The government has announced public sector pension negotiations will continue on ‘scheme by scheme' basis in the future.

UK - MPs are set to undergo the same pensions reform as the wider public sector and have a new scheme imposed on them by 2015, it was announced yesterday.

MPs are set to undergo the same pensions reform as the wider public sector and have a new scheme imposed on them by 2015, it was announced yesterday.

Jonathan Stapleton's take on the public sector protests