NHS Pension Scheme Penserver Development

Mr. Stephen O'Brien
To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) what the timetable was for the NHS Pension Scheme Penserver development prior to July 2005;

(2) how the requirements of the NHS pension scheme changed during the roll-out of the Penserver development; and if she will make a statement;

Ms Rosie Winterton
During the Penserver development programme the NHS Employers Organisation entered into consultation with national health service trade unions over the modernisation of the NHS Pension Scheme. The managers of the NHS Pension Scheme administration identified this as a significant change programme and commissioned a technical solutions health check. The main recommendation from this review was that further  phases of Penserver development should be combined with the overall change programme for pension scheme modernisation.

Penserver phase one was introduced in July 2003 and Penserver phase two in October 2005, as a result.