Consultation outcome

Pensions and growth: smoothing of assets

• From: Department for Work and Pensions
• Published: 25 January 2013
• Last updated: 7 May 2013 — See all updates

This was published under the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

Applies to England, Scotland and Wales

This consultation has concluded

Read the full outcome

Pensions and growth: a call for evidence (government response)

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Detail of outcome

Government response to the call for evidence on whether to smooth assets and liabilities in scheme funding valuations and whether to introduce a new statutory objective for the Pensions Regulator.

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Original consultation

Summary

Call for evidence on whether to smooth assets and liabilities in scheme funding valuations and whether to introduce a new statutory objective for the Pensions Regulator.

This consultation ran from
25 January 2013 to 11:45pm on 7 March 2013

Consultation description

This call for evidence asked for views on:

• whether the smoothing of assets and liabilities would be appropriate in schemes undertaking technical provisions (part 3) valuations, considering impacts on members, sponsoring employers and the Pension Protection Fund
• how smoothing might be applied
• whether a new statutory objective for the regulator is necessary, or whether the appropriate considerations can be delivered under existing objectives, or alternatively whether other changes to the legislation are required.

Documents

Pensions and growth: a call for evidence

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Published 25 January 2013
Last updated 7 May 2013 + show all updates

1. 7 May 2013

   Government's response published.

2. 25 January 2013

   First published.