Government outlines opposition to IORPS II

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The government will continue to fight proposals by the European Commission to update its pensions directive to introduce solvency requirements for schemes, says Steve Webb.

Speaking at a National Association of Pension Funds conference on the Institutions for Occupational Retirement Provision Directive, the pensions minister described the proposals as an “answer witho...

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