{"value":{"id":178763,"memberId":4262,"member":null,"memberRole":"The Commercial Secretary to the Treasury","uin":"HLWS246","dateMade":"2015-02-10T00:00:00","answeringBodyId":14,"answeringBodyName":"HM Treasury","title":"Public Service Pensions Up-Rating 2015","text":"<p>My right honourable friend the Chief Secretary to the Treasury (Danny Alexander) has today made the following Written Ministerial Statement.</p><p>Legislation governing public service pensions requires them to be increased annually by the same percentage as additional pensions (State Earnings Related Pension and State Second Pension). Public service pensions will therefore be increased from 6 April 2015 by 1.2 per cent, in line with the annual increase in the Consumer Prices Index up to September 2014, except for those public service pensions which have been in payment for less than a year, which will receive a pro-rata increase.</p><p> </p>","house":"Lords","noticeNumber":0,"hasAttachments":false,"hasLinkedStatements":true,"linkedStatements":[{"linkedStatementId":178756,"linkType":"JointStatement","linkDate":"2015-02-10T00:00:00"}],"attachments":[]},"links":[{"rel":"self","href":"/Statements/178763","method":"GET"}]}