The Scottish Parliamentary Pension Scheme provides benefits for Members of the Scottish Parliament and officeholders (including the Lord Advocate and the Solicitor General for Scotland). It also provides benefits for surviving partners and children.
Contributions are paid into the Scottish Parliamentary Contributory Pension Fund, which was established under the scheme. Investment is managed by an external fund manager, Baillie Gifford.
The scheme rules are listed in the Scottish Parliamentary Pensions Act 2009 (opens in new window).
A board of trustees is responsible for managing and administering the fund in accordance with the scheme rules. The current board of trustees is:
Minutes of meeting: 3 December 2024 (170KB, pdf) posted 06 March 2025
Minutes of meeting: 10 September 2024 (95KB, pdf) posted 05 December 2024
Minutes of meeting: 12 March 2024 (159KB, pdf) posted 11 September 2024
Minutes of meeting: 5 December 2023 (125KB, pdf) posted 13 March 2024
Minutes of meeting: 26 September 2023 (152KB, pdf) posted 06 December 2023
Minutes of meeting: 6 June 2023 (132KB, pdf) posted 29 September 2023
Minutes of meeting: 7 March 2023 (172KB, pdf) posted 07 June 2023
Minutes of meeting: 6 December 2022 (170KB, pdf) posted 08 March 2023
Minutes of meeting: 6 September 2022 (82KB, pdf) posted 08 December 2022
Minutes of meeting: 29 March 2022 (193KB, pdf) posted 15 September 2022
Minutes of meeting: 25 October 2021 (57KB, pdf) posted 29 April 2022
Minutes of earlier meetings are available on our archive website
The Scottish Parliament's Pay and Pensions Office provides secretariat support to the fund trustees.
Any enquiries for the trustees should be emailed to PayAndPensionEnquiries@parliament.scot, or by writing to:
The Scottish Parliament
Pay and Pensions Office Office
Edinburgh
EH99 1SP
The Scottish Public Pensions Agency (SPPA) provides a pension administration service on behalf of the fund trustees. Information about pension entitlement and the pension scheme rules in general can be found on the SPPA website (opens in new window).