Consultation outcome

Automatic enrolment: Alternative quality requirements for defined benefits and hybrid schemes being used as a workplace pension

• From: Department for Work and Pensions
• Published: 15 May 2023
• Last updated: 6 February 2024 — See all updates

This was published under the 2022 to 2024 Sunak Conservative government

Applies to England, Scotland and Wales

This consultation has concluded

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Government response to Automatic enrolment: Alternative quality requirements for defined benefits and hybrid schemes being used as a workplace pension

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Detail of outcome

The government published its response to this call for evidence on 6 February 2024.

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Original consultation

Summary

This call for evidence is aimed at employers, employee representatives and pension industry professionals, including scheme administrators, actuaries, independent financial advisers and employee benefit consultants.

This consultation ran from
12:15am on 15 May 2023 to 11:45pm on 19 June 2023

Consultation description

Regulations made under Section 23A(1) set out the alternative quality requirement for defined benefit pension schemes that are used for automatic enrolment. The requirements allow for simpler alternative tests to be used so that a scheme can demonstrate that it is of sufficient quality to be used by employers to fulfil their automatic enrolment duties.

This call for evidence aims to ascertain whether the government’s policy intentions in this area are continuing to be being achieved. In particular it looks at how the simplifications and flexibilities work in practice, and whether any new issues have arisen since the last triennial review in 2020.

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Automatic enrolment: Alternative quality requirements for defined benefits and hybrid schemes being used as a workplace pension

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Automatic enrolment: Alternative quality requirements for defined benefits and hybrid schemes being used as a workplace pension

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Published 15 May 2023
Last updated 6 February 2024 + show all updates

1. 6 February 2024

   Published government response to the call for evidence.

2. 15 May 2023

   First published.