The Infrastructure Minister has confirmed that planned reforms to the Local Government Superannuation Scheme remain stalled, with no capacity to progress the work in the next six months.
Minister Tim Crookall MHK was responding to a written Tynwald question from Rushen MHK and Speaker Juan Watterson, who asked for an update on progress, areas of disagreement, reasons for delay and the outlook for the coming six months.
Mr Crookall said the Department of Infrastructure and Douglas City Council began reviewing the scheme in 2022-23, following a formal request from the Council’s Pensions Committee in July 2021.
That review identified a series of potential reforms to the scheme’s wider benefit structure, including possible alignment with elements of the Government Unified Scheme.
A joint consultation with scheme employers, employees and trade unions took place in July 2023.
The Minister said there are no substantive policy disagreements between the Department and Douglas City Council on the direction of the proposed reforms.
Instead, the delay is due to the volume of secondary legislation required and the limited drafting resource available.
He confirmed that there is currently no resource to undertake the legislative work within the next six months.
The full written answer can be found here.
