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Lord Davies of Brixton (Lab)

Speaking in the House of Lords on 15 June 2026

Debate

Teachers’ Pension Scheme: Automatic Enrolment

Contribution

My Lords, I thank my noble friend for her important Question and my noble friend the Minister for her reply. However, as the Minister mentioned, we are awaiting the results of the 2024 valuations using the revised discount rate. The results of the valuations are still confidential, but my own back of the envelope calculation suggests that the contribution rate will be materially lower—almost as low as the 16% that it was in the past. Surely this is a ludicrous way to run the country’s finances. It has been 16%, then 28%, then 16%. Is it not about time that we went back to using the social time discount rate so that we can give the participating institutions some stability and knowledge about where they are going?

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