NHS Pension Scheme
House of Commons · Written Statements · 2 Sep 2026 · 1 speech · Official Report
Over the past year, I have made regular statements about the implementation of the McCloud remedy in the NHS pension scheme. This hugely complex undertaking across the public sector pension schemes is required to address age discriminatory policy legislated for by the coalition Government in 2013. The NHS pension scheme is administered on behalf of the Department by the NHS Business Services Authority. In 2025, the NHSBSA failed to meet its McCloud delivery deadlines. In response, in July 2025, I commissioned Lisa Tennant in her capacity as chair of the NHS pensions board to carry out an independent review of the NHSBSA’s delivery of the McCloud remedy. The report from this review has been published today on www.gov.uk. Copies have been placed in the Library of the House. The review was an extensive and forensic undertaking. It has identified and made recommendations across two broad categories of findings: Strategic factors: including governance, leadership, organisational culture and systemic issues Operational factors: including the operating model, operational readiness, digital and data, customer experience and change management. Lisa Tennant’s final report makes clear that further action is required to put the NHS pension scheme on a secure footing and to prepare it for long-overdue modernisation. Since July 2025, I have regularly met Lisa to hear her emerging findings and I have increased the Department’s oversight and support for the NHS pension scheme: NHSBSA is now...