The Commission has no means to influence the allocation of the Assembly Members' pension scheme’s assets. The power to invest the scheme’s assets sits entirely with the pension board, which is independent of the Commission. The pension board as a whole will decide where to invest those assets, based on advice received from the board’s investment advisers. 

For Commission staff, the civil service pension scheme is an unfunded scheme and therefore has no assets to invest. Benefits are paid from tax revenues rather than from assets set aside to pay them.