Commentary on Sections and Schedules Parliamentary and other pension schemes Section 33: Great offices of state
202.Section 33 and Schedule 11 amend the pension arrangements for future incumbents of certain great offices of state, which are the offices of Prime Minister, Lord Chancellor and the Speaker of the House of Commons.
203.The effect of these provisions is that the current special pension arrangements that apply to the great offices of state will cease to apply in relation to future office holders. Instead, pension and severance payments will be provided to and in respect of these office holders on the same basis as ministers and certain other office holders listed in paragraph 16(2) of Schedule 6 to the Constitutional Reform and Governance Act 2010.
204.Section 33 introduces Schedule 11 which contains amendments to existing legislation, which are required to give effect to the changes to the pension arrangements for the great offices of state.