On 7 January progress started once more on the Pension Schemes Bill when it returned to the House of Lords to receive its First Reading – a formality ahead of its republication on 8 January. 

The Bill is substantially the same to that introduced in October and which fell away following the calling of the General Election, but there is the prospect of more being added during the Bill’s parliamentary journey.  In this News Alert, we summarise and comment on the contents of the Bill which will presumably get on to the statute book by the early summer.

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