ASCL welcomes the opportunity to make a written response to the proposals on proposed 
changes to the Teachers’ Pension Scheme (TPS) regulations, as this is the school to which 
the majority of eligible ASCL members belong.

The consultation is in two parts, the first of which relates to proposals to amend scheme 
regulations so as to provide female members in an opposite-sex marriage or civil partnership 
with the same survivor pension rights as female members in a same-sex marriage or civil 
partnership, commonly cites as the Walker and Goodwin cases.

ASCL fully supports pensions equality and welcomes regulatory change to ensure 
that school leaders’ adult survivor pensions for all same-sex spouses and civil 
partners would be based on the same accrued pension as adult survivor pensions for 
widows of opposite-sex marriages, (backdated to 1972) and that the pensions of male 
survivors from heterosexual marriages and civil partnerships (widowers) would also 
be based on pensions accrued from 1972 onwards.

Full response to consultation