MPs to examine boosting pension funds’ UK investment
30 April 2025
MPs on the Work and Pensions Committee will question pension industry leaders and finance think tanks on pension funds’ UK investments and how to boost them.
- Read: Defined Benefit Pensions Schemes: Government Response
- Watch the 14 May session
- Work and Pensions Committee
The Government has made releasing funds in pension funds and insurance firms part of its policy to boost investment in the UK in a bid to drive economic growth. The introduction of the Pensions Scheme Bill, reportedly due before the summer, is expected to include measures that would help achieve this.
In recent months, the Government has threatened to mandate in law levels of investment by pension schemes in the UK if they do not do so voluntarily.
Meanwhile, the Committee has published the Government response to the predecessor Committee’s report on Defined Benefit Pension Schemes.
Witnesses
Panel 1 from 09.30:
- Jesse Griffiths, Chief Executive Officer, Financial Innovation Lab;
- Jackie Wells, Independent Pensions Researcher;
- William Wright, Managing Director, New Financial.
Panel 2 from 10.15:
- Rachel Croft, Trustee Director, Association of Professional Pension Trustees;
- Chris Curry, Director, Pensions Policy Institute;
- Yvonne Braun, Director of Policy, Long-Term Savings, Health & Protection, Association of British Insurers;
- Joe Dabrowski, Deputy Director, Pension and Lifetime Savings Association.
Further information
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