Consultation on amendments to firefighters’ pension schemes in Wales 2021
Q1. How far do you believe the draft regulations reflect the need to transfer protected members into the 2015 Scheme on 1 April next year? Do you think there are any errors or omissions in the draft?
Q2. Do you have any views on the proposals regarding double accrual?
Q3. Do you have any views on the proposals regarding ill health retirement? In particular, do you agree that we should draft the regulations to make provision for ill health retirements which straddle the transfer date, and which ensure that people in those circumstances are no worse off than if they retired before that date?
Q4. Do you envisage any difficulties or obstacles in implementing the transfer which the regulations provide for?
Q5. We are interested in understanding whether the proposals in this consultation document will have an impact on people with protected characteristics. Protected characteristics are: age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion and belief, sex, and sexual orientation. Do you think that the proposals in this consultation will have any positive or negative impacts on people with protected characteristics? If so, which and why/why not?
Q6. We would like to know your views on the effects that the above proposals would have on the Welsh language, specifically on opportunities for people to use Welsh and on treating the Welsh language no less favourably than English. What effects do you think there would be? How could positive effects be increased, or negative effects be mitigated?
Q7. Please also explain how you believe the proposed policy could be formulated or changed so as to have positive effects or increased positive effects on opportunities for people to use the Welsh language and on treating the Welsh language no less favourably than the English language, and no adverse effects on opportunities for people to use the Welsh language and on treating the Welsh language no less favourably than the English language.