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Trades unions have rejected a government suggestion to hold a 15-minute symbolic strike instead of a day of industrial action over cuts to public sector pensions.

The government will allow the Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) to ditch Lord Hutton's proposals for a career average scheme and keep the final salary arrangements, a source close to government said.

Members of the Unison trade union have voted in favour of strike action on 30 November in response to public sector pension reforms.

The government is set to make an "enhanced offer" to unions in negotiations over public sector pensions.

The government will break its promise to "triple lock" the amount by which the state pension is adjusted for inflation, the National Pensioners Convention (NPC) has said.

The National Association of Pension Funds (NAPF) will publish a list of pension legislation it thinks should be scrapped in the new year.

Speaker of the House of Commons John Bercow will not suffer any cuts to his pension although MPs, the Prime Minister and the Chancellor will see reform to theirs.

MPs have passed a motion transferring the responsibility for setting their pension payments to the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (IPSA).

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is reportedly pushing for GPs to be required to encourage patients with long term medical conditions to go back to work.

Lord Robert Winston has slammed the government's Health and Social Care Bill saying there was "a hell of a lot wrong with it" and said it did not address patients basic medical needs.