Member

Some schemes provide for increases in benefits over and above the GMP for the member with the lower-value GMP to equalise with a comparator opposite-sex GMP. Provisions in the Bill create an unintentional inconsistency of treatment for members of the subset of schemes that provided statutory increases only on post-88 GMPs but also equalised their GMPs by increasing benefits over and above the GMP. I hope noble Lords are with me still. Where GMPs have been equalised in this way, these amendments to the legislation introducing pre-1997 increases ensure consistent treatment between men and women.