We sent a letter to Paul Early of the HP Pension Trustees on the 7th of January 2022 and we received the following response from him:
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The Pensions Schemes Bill 255 debate in the House of Commons 3rd December 2025 & Amendment NC22 Full Debate available here: https://parliamentlive.tv/event/index/09c3d00e-39d2-4271-beb8-5c42674a8e5c?in=14:19:11
If your MP is not on this list of signatures, please send this message to them asap and copypatricia@hppa.org.uk Signatures as of 24th November 2025:
Pre-97 Alliance’s response to Torsten Bell and the attitude of parent companies to pensions trustee requests. Also our response to the recent statements from the Society
Pat describes the amendment NC22 and what it will do for Pre-97 pensioners.
Special thanks to Dame Nia Griffith, Labour MP for Llanelli, and Elaine Stewart, Labour MP for Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock, who were both instrumental in making this possible. Pension
Pre-1997 Injustice The Minister will be well aware that there is no requirement for pension indexation for service before 1997. The Pre-1997 Alliance speaks for
Please see below the email we would like you to send to your MP. It is fairly lengthy and includes a couple of links to
HPPA and the Pre-97 Alliance members created several important high-profile events throughout September and October. It began with Patricia & David Carson contacting Elaine Stewart, the Labour MP for Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock right after her election in July 2024.
Bracknell News October 2024 – Peter Swallow MP calls for Pension Justice.
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It seems quite obvious that HP regard their digital pensioners in the same light that Putin regards Ukraine – worth plundering but little else.
Dare one hope that their senior executives end up the way Putin most surely will?
What a concidence?? For the first time in 14 years and more than doubling all it’s previous generosity, HP have awarded us older pensiners a rise of 3%.
What can I say? Well done to our trustee activists. Rome wasn’t built in a day. Let’s hope this will be a sea change in the Company’s approach.
Ever hopeful.
Frank Leach, ex-Epsom and Leatherhead sales.