Local Pension Board
In accordance with legislation, the council, as administering authority of the Hillingdon Fund of the LGPS, created a Local Pension Board, which came into effect from April 2015. Council at its meeting in November 2017 agreed to change the board structure and membership to improve the overall effectiveness and independence of the board.
The Pensions Board is not a decision making body; it has a compliance and scrutiny role to ensure the Pensions Committee effectively and efficiently complies with the code of practice on the governance and administration of public service pension schemes issued by the Pension Regulator.
Additionally, the Pension Board will help ensure that the Hillingdon Pension Fund is managed and administered effectively and efficiently and complies with the code of practice on the governance and administration of public service pension schemes issued by the Pension Regulator.
The membership of the board must be equally split between employer and scheme member representatives with relevant experience and the capacity to represent. Council has determined that membership shall be 2 employer and 2 employee representatives.
Employer representatives
- Marie Stokes
- Shane Woodhatch
Employee representatives
- Tony Noakes
- Roger Hackett (Chair)
Minutes of the Local Pension Board
The board is supported by:
- Andy Evans, Corporate Director of Finance
- James Lake, Director of Finance - Pensions, Treasury and Statutory Accounts
- Sebviro Carvalho, Technical Pensions Officer
- Tunde Adekoya, Finance Manager - Pensions and Governance
- Ann-Marie Pereira, Executive Assistant
- Clare Scott, as a Governance Adviser
Annual report
Terms of reference
- The Pensions Board will meet at a frequency determined by the Board.
- Reports to the Board will either reflect decisions taken by Pensions Committee or be reports for noting already seen by Pensions Committee.
- The role of the Board will be to assist London Borough of Hillingdon Administering Authority as Scheme Manager: to secure compliance with the LGPS regulations and any other legislation relating to the governance and administration of the LGPS.
- To secure compliance with requirements imposed in relation to the LGPS by the Pensions Regulator; and in such other matters as the LGPS regulations may specify.
- To secure the effective and efficient governance and administration of the LGPS for the London Borough of Hillingdon Pension Fund.
- To provide the Scheme Manager with such information as it requires to ensure that any member of the Pension Board or person to be appointed to the Pension Board does not have a conflict of interest.
Please note: Being a member of the LGPS is not seen as a conflict of interest.