Welcome to the June 2026 edition of the HPPA Pension Justice Newsletter. This month’s newsletter provides important updates about the ongoing campaign for pension justice.
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Latest Campaign Updates
New PM, New Opportunity
As a new PM takes over, we have a new opportunity to influence potential change. Thanks to all your efforts sending letters to your MPs, we are in the best position ever to make our case for change. Please limber up those fingers and be ready for more. Better yet, get an appointment for an on-line meeting with your MP during the upcoming Parliamentary recess. We can help you prepare and will join you on-line.
Surplus Sharing Consultation has been launched
| “Reactions to DWP Consultation: Surplus Flexibilities for Defined Benefits Pension Schemes: Unlocking Value for Employers and Scheme Members” |
| After such a promising title, where scheme members were mentioned in joint headline, Alliance leaders and members were sorely disappointed. The document and the minister has not delivered what was promised to our members. The focus on pensioners begins and ends in the title.Despite the Minister’s introduction, there is little that is likely to change the pre-97 injustice.
We will be using our voices as individuals, schemes, and the Alliance to respond to the consultation. And we will be asking you to send a short paper to your MP which will specify our “asks”. |
June Call To Action and Consultation Response
| On the positive side, over 80 HPPA members have written to their MP with the message about the consultation. These communications chains of messages to your MP, on to the Minister, replies to your MP and then back to you are one of the major ways we influence change. |
| Since January of this year members have sent 456 emails to their MPs, bringing the total emails sent since September 2025 to a staggering 2758! MPs have been extremely responsive, with 334 in correspondence with our members and 124 of them have advocated their support for justice for pre-97 pensioners. |
| Many members also responded individually to the consultation both online and by email. The HPPA Pension Justice Alliance submitted a joint response which detailed our concerns and requested a halt in the implementation plans until those concerns could be addressed. More information will be available when the consultation closes in September. |
Letter to Matt Harris, CEO HPE
| Elaine Stewart MP for Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock has received a reply to her letter of April 14th from Mr Harris. Mr Harris did not respond to the invitation for a meeting, nor did he provide any new information or justification for the lack of discretionary increases. |
| It is, unfortunately, pretty much the response we expected, but Patricia will work with Elaine on a response. |
Lloyds Register Demonstration at office in Fenwick Street London
| Lloyds Register Pensioners have taken their dispute public with a London Protest. Members of the Lloyd’s Register Pensioners Action Group gathered outside the organisation’s offices at 71 Fenchurch Street in what was expected to be sweltering conditions, arguing that parts of their pensions have remained frozen for more than a decade because pre-1997 benefits have not received inflation-linked increases. |
| Click the link below to read more. |
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A look back in Time
| Sometimes it is good to look back at where we have come from, the ground we have covered, and see our progression to where we are today, centre stage with politicians and the pensions press, with our stories covered by mainstream media including TV, equipped with all the past experience we have learned to take us forward. Click here to read our milestones in ‘A Potted History’. |
HPPA & Pre-1997 Pension Justice History |
| This newsletter is subtitled ‘A week is a long time in Politics and the HPPA Pensions Justice Alliance’. This is certainly true in June, where by-election results resulted in the resignation of the prime minister and a new prime minister waiting in the wings. |
| We have been on the front foot just to seize the moment. Our supportive MPs are ready and waiting to deliver our message so that we are noticed, and our injustice is clear. If justice is indeed what our new PM is all about, then our case should be examined in his first 100 days. |
| HPPA and Pensions Justice Alliance Chair Patricia Kennedy, |
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