Legislation

The Bank of England has left interest rates unchanged at and signalled its intention to continue with its £325bn programme of quantitative easing.

The Society of Pension Consultants has urged the European Commission to clarify whether all occupational pension schemes are exempt from its ban on gender-based annuity pricing.

Pension schemes' accrued liabilities could have different rules from more stringent Solvency II-style capital requirements, a leading EU policy maker has hinted.

The government is planning an overhaul of the way it grants tax relief on pensions which will cost the industry, employers and the government "hundreds of millions", Baker Tilly warns.

MPs have rejected calls to reintroduce the Retail Prices Index for pensions uprating in a debate triggered by an online petition which attracted more than 100,000 signatories.

National Association of Pension Funds chairman Mark Hyde Harrison has warned the European Commission that imposing Solvency II on pension funds could shut off the economic recovery.

The Financial Services Authority has proposed changes to the way pension transfer values are calculated.

Workplace defined contribution pension provision is to be investigated by the MPs who make up the Work and Pensions Committee at the House of Commons.

Former employees of Lloyds TSB are challenging the company's decision to cap increases in pensionable pay in a dispute that could end up in the High Court.

The e-petition protesting the RPI to CPI switch has attracted more than 100,000 signatures and will be debated in the House of Commons on Thursday (1 March).