Government to review second miners pension scheme

Tens of thousands more former mineworkers could be set to benefit after the government announced it would review a controversial pension scheme.The chancellor used last month’s Budget to scrap a 30-year old arrangement that saw the government receive hundreds of millions of pounds a year from the Mineworkers Pension Scheme (MPS).The first instalment of the £1.5bn Rachel Reeves pledged to pay back will be made on…