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Protecting Our Pensions - Email your MP

How to find your MP
You have ONE local constituency MP.

To find your MP from your postcode click here for MP search on the UK Parliament site (opens in a new window)

Note the name of your MP, then use the drop down list on the email form on this page to select their name, fill in the form and click 'send'.

Please send one email only to your own MP.

Please also send one email each to all your own MSPs, local and regional: click here to go to page for emailing MSPs

Thanks for helping to protect our pensions.

Protecting our pensions

UNISON Scotland Pensions home page

Email now to lobby your MP over the Public Service Pensions Bill

Let your MP know you want him or her to support amendments to this Bill which will leave Scottish public service pension schemes free to design a scheme that meets Scottish requirements.

Here's what you need to do.

Check the name of your MP (see How to find your MP - right)
Please remember - you have ONE Westminster MP (as well as 7 regional MSPs and a local MSP in Holyrood!) They all represent you. Please use the form below to send an email to your MP and the form on the MSP emailing page to send emails to as many of your own MSPs as you can.
Fill in the form below
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Your message: If you re-write this in your own words, you will make this action even more effective.	Dear MP I am writing to express my concern about the above Bill that is being considered at Committee Stage in Westminster. As you will be aware primary pension legislation is a reserved issue mainly covered by the UK Superannuation Act 1972. This is largely enabling legislation that allows the Scottish Parliament to design schemes by regulation that meets Scottish requirements. However, this Bill prescribes key elements of all schemes and that will apply to the Scottish schemes for the first time. All of these elements are currently decided in Scotland and therefore the Bill significantly undermines the current and future pension schemes. If the Bill goes through unamended, the Scottish Parliament will be required to bring the Scottish schemes into line with agreements reached in England on key issues. These may not reflect Scottish circumstances and they constitute an unwarranted interference by the Treasury in Scottish provisions. For many years I have done the responsible thing by paying into a pension scheme. I expect the rules for that pension scheme to be negotiated between my trade union and the employers, leading to regulations being passed by the Scottish Parliament. I do not want the Treasury to be able to narrowly prescribe the scope of those negotiations or change the rules at will. Such an action will undermine my confidence in the pension scheme. I would therefore urge you to amend this Bill to leave Scottish public service pension schemes free to design a scheme that meets Scottish requirements. Yours sincerely,
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Page updated: 8 November 2012