{"id":800487,"date":"2026-10-12T19:44:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-12T19:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/800487\/"},"modified":"2026-10-12T19:44:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T19:44:09","slug":"no-probe-into-claims-swinney-pension-comments-misled-holyrood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/800487\/","title":{"rendered":"No probe into claims Swinney pension comments misled Holyrood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The triple lock, introduced in 2011, guarantees the UK state pension increases every year in line with whichever is the highest of inflation, average wages, or 2.5%.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In his speech at the Labour party&#8217;s conference, prime minister Andy Burnham said he would look to &#8220;adjust&#8221; that calculation after the next general election.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Under his proposals pensions would rise in line with the highest of inflation or 2.5%, with the aim of cutting spending on pensions by \u00a315bn a year by the end of the 2030s.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Findlay said: &#8220;John Swinney misled Parliament and he knows it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;He should set the record straight instead of crowing that he has supposedly not breached the ministerial code.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The triple lock, introduced in 2011, guarantees the UK state pension increases every year in line with whichever&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":800488,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[84,4176,4174,4175,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-800487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-personal-finance","tag-business","tag-finance","tag-personal-finance","tag-personalfinance","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=800487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800487\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/800488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=800487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=800487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=800487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}