To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government if she will place in the Library a copy of all governance compliance statements and general governance statements requested from Local Government Pension Scheme administration authorities and held by the Workforce Pay and Pensions Division of her Department. (261755)

The Department does not at present hold copies of all of the governance statements. Once we have received all of the statements we will be publishing a report on our website. Copies can be obtained from each administering authority who are in any event required to publish them.

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what the name and address is of each administrator of each individual fund within the Local Government Pension Scheme; and which local authorities are members of each individual fund. (262375)

The pension manager of each fund is designated as the relevant administrator of each of the eighty-nine Local Government Pension Scheme funds in England and Wales. Contact details can be found at:

www.lge.gov.uk/lge/core.

Schedule 4, parts 1 and 2, of the Local Government Pension Scheme (Administration) Regulations 2008 set out the requirements on which individual fund, employers contribute to their respective pension funds. Details of these employers are not held centrally.

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government (1) which councillors are members of the Local Government Pension Scheme in their capacities as councillors; (262379)

Only elected members of a district council, county council or London borough council are defined as eligible members for the purpose of access to the Local Government Pension Scheme.

Decisions on access for councillors to the scheme are made by each local authority in the light of recommendations from its independent remuneration panel. There is no requirement to provide details to the Department of who has taken up any subsequent right of access.

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what representations she has received from the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy on amendments to the Local Government Pension Scheme rules to allow greater discretion to local authority investment managers; and if she will make a statement. (262684)

A copy of CIPFA’s report “Local Government Pension Scheme Investment Regulations: Options for Change” was submitted to the Department on 27 January. The report will be treated as a response to the current statutory consultation exercise on the consolidation of the scheme’s investment regulations, which is due to close on 3 April 2009.

We will consider its recommendations carefully.

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what representations she has received from the Local Government Association on the retirement age for the Local Government Pension Scheme; and if she will make a statement. (262685)

The Local Government Association recently expressed its support to see an increase in the scheme’s retirement age from 65, as part of a response made by the Local Government Employers to a statutory consultation exercise on proposals to introduce cost-share arrangements in the Local Government Pension Scheme later this year.