Heather Jameson 29 September 2025

Labour conference: Reed puts councillors back into LGPS

Labour conference: Reed puts councillors back into LGPS image
Steve Reed © MHCLG Flickr.

Councillors in England will be allowed back into the Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS), communities secretary Steve Reed has announced.

Speaking to a Local Government Association fringe event at the Labour Party conference, Reed reversed the rules that banned councillors from the LGPS in 2014 under the Conservative Government.

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