Consultation on amendments to firefighter pension schemes in Wales 2020
Q1. To what extent do you agree that the draft regulations achieve the aim of equalising survivor benefits for survivors of civil partnerships and same sex marriages?
Q2. Are you aware of any equality issues not covered here?
Q3. Do you have any other views on the amendments set out in the draft regulations?
Q4. Do you agree that the amendments set out in the draft regulations comply fully with the Supreme Court judgment in the case of McLaughlin?
Q5. Are you aware of any equality issues not covered here?
Q6. Do you have any other views on the amendments set out in the draft regulations?
Q7. Can you foresee any challenges to the administration of the pension schemes with regard to the proposed draft regulations?
Q8. 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?
Q9. 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?
Q10. 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.
Q11. We have asked a number of specific questions. If you have any related issues which we have not specifically addressed, please use this space to report them: