Government sells £400m RMPP property portfolio to Santander Pension Plan

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The government has begun to sell off former assets of the Royal Mail Pension Plan with the sale of £400m of properties to the Santander Pension Scheme.

The assets were acquired by the government when it took on the pension liabilities of the Royal Mail in a bid to prepare the service for privatisation. In last year's budget, Chancellor George O...

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