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Birmingham Chamber of Commerce and Industry
Notes to the Financial Statements For the Year Ended 31 March 2023 22. Pension commitments
The Company operates a defined benefit pension scheme (DBPS) and a defined contribution scheme for its employees.
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Defined contribution scheme
The assets of the scheme are held separately from those of the company in an independently administered fund. The pension cost charge represents contributions payable by the company to the fund and amounted to £111,000 (2022: £109,000). Contributions totalling £21,000 were outstanding as at 31 March 2023 (2022: £19,000).
Defined benefit pension scheme
The assets of the scheme are held separately from those of the company and the pension scheme is administered by the Birmingham C.O.C. Pension Fund Trustee Company Limited.
The DBPS was closed to new entrants on 30 September 2002. In May 2007 BCCI entered into an agreement with the scheme Trustee for future funding of the scheme. The agreement was conditional upon consent received from active members of the scheme to the cessation of accrual of future service benefits with effect from 1 September 2007. Regular contributions by members of the DBPS therefore ceased on that date.
A new agreement was signed in 2020 which superseded the 2007 Agreement; this confirmed the arrangements for a significant contribution to the pension scheme following the sale of the leasehold property in October 2020. This allowed BCCI to cease making regular contributions from October 2020 until completion of the next triennial revaluation in 2023.
BCCI also meets the Fund’s expenses. The next triennial actuarial valuation as at 30 June 2020 was approved by pension fund trustees on 16 June 2021 and by BCCI board on 23 July 2021.
The company has adopted Section 38 "Employee Benefits" of Financial Reporting Standard 102. The defined liability has been measured by using the present value of its obligations under defined benefit plans less the fair value at the reporting date of plan assets out of which the obligations are to be settled.
