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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FYI – this is the reply from my local MP
Good morning
Thank you for contacting me about pension arrangements for Hewlett Packard (HP) workers.
Pension schemes have an obligation to uprate any pension accruals built up after 6th April 1997 in line with the Consumer Prices Index (CPI), subject to a cap of five per cent. For any pension built up after 6 April 2005, that cap is 2.5 per cent. However, schemes do not have to increase any part of a pension that was built up before 6 April 1997.
The exception to this is for any schemes that were contracted out of the additional State Pension and are required to provide a Guaranteed Minimum Pension, worth at least as much as the State Pension you would have built up if you had not been ‘contracted out’; any accruals built up after 6 April 1988 must be uprated by law by CPI, subject to a three per cent cap.
It is important that schemes are able to plan for the long term and remain secure and sustainable. I appreciate your frustration that your scheme is choosing not to uprate above the legal requirements, but it is meeting its statutory obligations, and it is not appropriate for Ministers to comment on or intervene in the decisions of individual schemes.
I understand that it is the HP Pensions Association’s view that schemes should be required to uprate in line with the Retail Prices Index (RPI) instead of CPI. The CPI measure reflects the spending of pensioners far better than the RPI measure. The CPI also uses a methodology that is a more accurate reflection of how consumers, including pensioners, respond to price rises, than the methodology employed in the RPI. Schemes may choose to uprate by RPI, but that is a decision for individual schemes.
Thank you for highlighting the debate on the 2nd. My diary for that day is not finalised but I have made a note of the event.
Thank you again for contacting me on this issue, I have noted your strength of feeling on this issue.
Kind regards
Steve
Rt Hon Stephen Barclay MP
Member of Parliament for North East Cambridgeshire