MP Frank Field: let schemes ditch CPI link

Should struggling pension schemes protect their members from inflation? Labour MP Frank Fields is to look into it. David Prosser reports.

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Frank Field: let trustees vary the inflation link

Should struggling company pension schemes that have offered guaranteed levels of retirement income to their members be allowed to drop a promise to protect them from inflation? Frank Field, the veteran Labour MP who chairs the House of Commons work and pensions select committee, says the cross-party group will debate exactly this.

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David Prosser
Business Columnist

David Prosser is a regular MoneyWeek columnist, writing on small business and entrepreneurship, as well as pensions and other forms of tax-efficient savings and investments. David has been a financial journalist for almost 30 years, specialising initially in personal finance, and then in broader business coverage. He has worked for national newspaper groups including The Financial Times, The Guardian and Observer, Express Newspapers and, most recently, The Independent, where he served for more than three years as business editor.