Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Oral question of 12 July 2022, Official Report, column 138, on the Mineworkers Pension Scheme, whether the Treasury has received the Trustee’s proposal on the issue; and if his Department will make a decision on that proposal by 21 July 2022.

HM Treasury recognises the importance of the issue and has approved the Mineworkers’ Pension Scheme Trustees’ request to bring forward the ‘bonus protection’ arrangements.