Agenda item

Local Pension Board Annual Report

Minutes:

The Committee received a report of the Corporate Director of Resources that provided an overview of the work completed by the Local Pension Board during 2018/19 and the work plan which would help frame the work of the board over the next two years (for copy see file of Minutes).

 

Anne Delandre asked how often the make up of the board was reviewed and Paul Cooper advised that a new chair would be elected at the meeting of the board later today.  One of the members was stepping down and he was actively looking to appoint a replacement.

 

With reference to paragraph 14 of the report, Councillor Carr asked if the Pension Fund Committee should have been notified of these cases of internal dispute.  Paul Cooper advised that these cases were reported to the board and included appeals about ill-health retirement with nothing of concern in the reporting period.  If a case was reported to the Ombudsman this was also flagged to the board.

 

Councillor Hopgood added that this was now a standard item on the board’s agenda with a particular emphasis on cases that go to the Ombudsman when the pension scheme was not upheld.

 

Resolved:

 

That the report be noted.

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