Select committee: Public Accounts Committee
Conclusion 10
49th Report - Administration of the Civil Service Pension Scheme
Published 24 Oct 2025
Addressed to HM Treasury
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Conclusion (the committee's words)
In response to the 2018 McCloud judgement, the Government created the ‘Remedy’ programme to implement remedies to all affected members across the public sector. Applying remedies to affected civil service members requires MyCSP to send Remedial Service Statements (RSSs) to those members, presenting them with two pension options, essentially either calculated under the old legacy scheme rules or the newer arrangements that have been in place since 2015. More than 400,000 Scheme members are affected by Remedy and need to make a choice as to their preferred option. Around 130,000 of these members are currently drawing their pensions. By the end of March 2025, MyCSP had issued RSSs to 44% of affected members who are currently drawing their pensions, above the financial-year-end target of 43% that the Cabinet Office set.20 13 Letter from Cabinet Office, 28 July 2025 14 Q 14 15 Letter from Cabinet Office, 28 July 2025; C&AG’s Report, para 2.7 16 Q 96 17 Q 97 18 C&AG’s Report, para 3.7 19 Qq 96-97 20 C&AG’s Report, para 2.18 and Figure 11 8 Updated data from the Cabinet Office in July showed that there are still 53% of affected members currently drawing their pensions who are yet to receive their RSSs and have their choices processed.21
From: Public Accounts Committee, 49th Report - Administration of the Civil Service Pension Scheme (HC 888), 24 October 2025
Government response
Latest Treasury Minutes progress report to the Committee of Public Accounts on the Forty-ninth Report of Session 2024-26
The government responded to the whole report on 4 June 2026 (deadline 24 December 2025).
Treasury minutes: Government response to the Committee of Public Accounts on the Forth-ninth report from Session 2024-26
Published 19 January 2026.
Summary written by Accountability Index from the government's response. It is not the government's own words.The government agrees with most of the Committee's recommendations on the administration of the Civil Service Pension Scheme, but disagrees with those on union recognition by suppliers and on its commercial strategy for pension administration.
- On Remedy, the government agrees and says the Cabinet Office has provided 58,400 (44%) of impacted members drawing their pension with revised options. It expects to be "in a position to communicate" timescales "during the first quarter of 2026".
- On the transition to Capita, the government agrees and says the service transitioned on 1 December. It says a rollback option with MyCSP existed until 31 December 2025, with options to extend support to the end of May 2026 "should this be required".
- On contract management, the government agrees and says a Contract Management Policy is embedded, under which the Scheme, as a gold tier contract, requires a contract manager "qualified at expert level".
- The government disagrees on union recognition, stating that under the Employment Act 1982 it is "prohibited from forcing suppliers to recognise trade unions". It disagrees on commercial strategy, citing the Procurement Act 2023 and saying in-house options are reviewed early in procurement.