Written Question·Department for Work and Pensions·UIN 77909
Workplace Pensions
Tabled: 16 September 2025
Answered: 14 October 2025
Question
Jess Brown-Fuller
Liberal Democrat — Chichester
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of paying the shortfall when employers are found to have unlawfully failed to contribute to their employee's pensions.
Answer
Torsten BellUnder the Pensions Act 2008, every employer in the UK must automatically enrol their eligible workers into a qualifying workplace pension scheme and pay the correct pension contributions into that scheme. The independent Pensions Regulator (TPR) has a sta...
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