The Committee scrutinised the progress being made in delivering the McCloud remedy in Scotland.
In Scotland, the Scottish Public Pensions Agency (SPPA) administers pensions on behalf of the Scottish Government for:
The UK Government reformed public sector pensions in 2014-15. This saw people moved from their final salary pension scheme to a new scheme based on earnings across their entire employment.
As part of this reform, the UK Government introduced ‘transitional protections’ for older members of the schemes who were close to retirement.
In 2018, the Court of Appeal ruled that younger members of these pension schemes had been unlawfully discriminated against, as the protections were not applied to them.
In response, the UK Government committed to changing all public sector pension schemes to remove this discrimination.
These changes are known as the McCloud remedy.
The Committee took oral and written evidence from SPPA.
The Committee has also corresponded with the Minister for Public Finance.
The Committee took evidence from the SPPA at the following meetings.
The Committee sent and received the following correspondence during its scrutiny:
Letter from Stephen Pathirana, Chief Executive, Scottish Public Pensions Agency, 25 March 2026
Letter from the Minister for Public Finance on the McCloud Remedy, 25 March 2026
Letter from the Chief Executive Officer of the Scottish Public Pensions Agency to the Convener, 11 March 2026
Letter from the Minister for Public Finance to the Convener, 17 February 2026
Letter from the Chief Executive Officer of the Scottish Public Pensions Agency to the Convener, 17 February 2026
Letter from the Chief Executive Officer of the Scottish Public Pensions Agency to the Convener, 18 December 2025
Letter from the Convener to the Chief Executive Officer of the Scottish Public Pensions Agency, 17 December 2025
Letter from the Convener to the Minister for Public Finance, 17 December 2025
Letter from the Chief Executive Officer of the Scottish Public Pensions Agency to the Convener, 1 October 2025
Letter from the Convener to the Chief Executive Officer of the Scottish Public Pensions Agency, 23 September 2025
Letter from the Chief Executive Officer, Scottish Public Pensions Agency to the Convener of 2 April 2025
Letter from the Convener to the Chief Executive Officer of the Scottish Public Pensions Agency
Letter from the Minister for Public Finance to the Convener of 27 February 2025