Workplace Pensions
Commons · Question 77909 · Tabled 16 Sep 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions · Official record
Answered 14 Oct 2025
Question
Asked by Jess Brown-Fuller
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
Answered by Torsten Bell, 14 Oct 2025
Under 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...