Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, whether he plans to hold a further formal public consultation on firefighters' pensions.

Paragraph 3.3 of the current consultation states out that the Department will hold further consultations during 2014 on the governance and transitional arrangements for the firefighter pension reforms.

The current consultation document, which closes on the 4 July, can be found at https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/consultation-on-the-regulations-to-introduce-a-new-firefighters-pension-scheme-from-april-2015 and copies have been placed in the Library of the House.