Ministers seek the committee's approval for the Executive to incur a contingent liability by issuing indemnities to the trustees of the two Scottish Transport Group pension fund schemes, so that the trustees may receive comfort from the Executive and the assurance that they need to proceed to wind up the two pension funds and pay over the net surplus assets of the schemes to the final employer, which is the Scottish Bus Group, in accordance with the deeds of the two schemes and the Westminster Parliament's Scottish Transport Group (Pension Schemes) Order 1996.If the indemnities are granted, the trustees will wind up the schemes by preparing final accounts and a balance sheet...