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Cat Little faces questions on the Civil Service Pensions failure and Infected Blood compensation
Please note: This session has been postponed. We will share details of the rearranged session in due course.
Permanent Secretary to the Cabinet Office, Cat Little CB, will be questioned by the Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee (PACAC) on the work of the Cabinet Office, including its annual report and accounts, and on some of its major challenges such as Civil Service Pensions and Infected Blood compensation.
Meeting details
Last week, Minister Nick Thomas-Symonds told the committee that the issues with the Civil Service Pensions are ‘completely and utterly unacceptable’. In a session last year, Cat Little told the Public Accounts Committee that plans would be in place if Capita wasn’t ready for the handover. Considering this, MPs are likely to ask how this happened and what is being done to fix it.
MPs are also likely to ask the Permanent Secretary, alongside Chief Executive of the Infected Blood Compensation Authority David Foley, about the challenges of processing compensation claims and estimating expected claimant numbers, as well as how the trust of the infected blood community can be rebuilt.
Questions on the Cabinet Office’s headcount and the Government Property Agency’s annual report, which highlighted 0% of projects being on target, may also be asked.
Following the session, the Public Accounts Committee will be questioning Capita Public Services CEO, Richard Holroyd, and Managing Director of Capita Pensions Solutions, Chris Clements, on Thursday.