CIPFA treasurer quits over pension deficit concern

Ian Perkin calls on CIPFA to use office sale surplus next year to pay down pension deficit

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Concern over CIPFA's strategy to control its pension deficit has driven the institute's treasurer to quit his role.

Ian Perkin, who became well known for blowing the whistle on data issues at St George's Hospital Trust prior to a tribunal ruling that he had been unfairly dismissed, has quit with a year left on h...

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