Chancellor Rishi Sunak has frozen public sector pay for most workers amid a raft of grim predictions for the UK economy he outlined to MPs today in the House of Commons.

Millions of public sector workers may need financial advice to guide them through their pension options as the Government decides how to respond to the McCloud judgment on age discrimination.

The Treasury has set out plans to revisit 2015 public sector reforms after the Court of Appeal ruled transitional protections provided to those within 10 years of retirement were discriminatory.

A quarter of a million NHS workers have opted out of the NHS pension scheme in the past three years, according to Freedom of Information data gathered by the Health Service Journal and Royal London.