Automatic enrolment in workplace pensions

What the government is doing about automatic enrolment in workplace pensions

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Guidance and regulation

• Automatic enrolment: guidance on certifying money purchase pension schemes
  • Guidance
  • 19 April 2017
  • Department for Work and Pensions
• Fair Deal guidance
  • Guidance
  • 4 October 2013
  • HM Treasury
• New State Pension: Information for employers and trustees with open, contracted-out defined benefit pension schemes
  • Guidance
  • 19 July 2016
  • Department for Work and Pensions and HM Revenue & Customs
• Automatic enrolment – Key facts booklet
  • Promotional
  • 1 April 2014
  • Department for Work and Pensions
• Pension guidance
  • Guidance
  • 16 October 2014
  • HM Treasury

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News and communications

• Ten years of Automatic Enrolment achieves over £114bn pension savings
  • 10 November 2022
  • Department for Work and Pensions
  • Press release
• Environmental Social Governance (ESG) and responsible investment
  • 6 June 2019
  • Department for Work and Pensions
  • Speech
• Small business shines light on success of automatic enrolment
  • 10 April 2019
  • Department for Work and Pensions
  • Press release
• Investment innovation and future consolidation for occupational DC pension schemes
  • 8 February 2019
  • Department for Work and Pensions
  • Speech
• Help for millions of self-employed to save and plan for retirement
  • 18 December 2018
  • Department for Work and Pensions
  • Press release

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Research and statistics

• Pension fund investment and the UK economy
  • 14 November 2024
  • Department for Work and Pensions
  • Research
• Automatic enrolment: review of the earnings trigger and qualifying earnings band for 2024/25
  • 6 February 2024
  • Department for Work and Pensions
  • Research
• Low earners and workplace pension saving – a qualitative study
  • 6 February 2024
  • Department for Work and Pensions
  • Research
• Analysing the impact of private pension measures on member outcomes
  • 11 July 2023
  • Department for Work and Pensions
  • Research
• Automatic enrolment: review of the earnings trigger and qualifying earnings band for 2023/24
  • 26 January 2023
  • Department for Work and Pensions
  • Research

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Policy papers and consultations

• Pensions Investment Review: Unlocking the UK pensions market for growth
  • 14 November 2024
  • Department for Work and Pensions and HM Treasury
  • Open consultation
  • Closing date 16 January 2025
• Automatic enrolment: Alternative quality requirements for defined benefits and hybrid schemes being used as a workplace pension
  • 6 February 2024
  • Department for Work and Pensions
  • Consultation outcome
  • Date closed 19 June 2023
• Ending the proliferation of deferred small pension pots
  • 22 November 2023
  • Department for Work and Pensions
  • Consultation outcome
  • Date closed 05 September 2023
• Options for Defined Benefit schemes: a call for evidence
  • 22 November 2023
  • Department for Work and Pensions
  • Call for evidence outcome
• Automatic enrolment review 2017: Maintaining the momentum
  • 11 July 2023
  • Department for Work and Pensions
  • Policy paper

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Transparency and freedom of information releases

• National Employment Savings Trust Corporation annual report and accounts 2014 to 2015
  • 14 July 2015
  • National Employment Savings Trust (NEST) Corporation
  • Corporate report
• Pensions bodies triennial review 2014
  • 9 January 2014
  • Department for Work and Pensions
  • Corporate report

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Organisations

• Department for Work & Pensions
• HM Treasury
• Cabinet Office
• Government Actuary's Department
• HM Revenue & Customs

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• Prime Minister's Office 10 Downing Street