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990459

	registered interest
	date	18/10/2018
	answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
	answering dept id	29
	answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
	answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
	hansard heading	Workplace Pensions: Tax Allowances
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to ensure that the Pensions Regulator will require trustees of net pay pension schemes to make provision for low earners to save in a relief at source scheme and do not enrol workers who would have to pay 25 per cent extra for their pensions.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Altmann
	uin	HL10792
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/11/2018 answer text <p>Automatic enrolment is a great success story with more than 9.9 million workers enrolled into workplace pension saving and over 1.3 million employers meeting their duties to date.</p><p> </p><p>Under automatic enrolment the employer is responsible for putting in place a qualifying workplace pension scheme for their eligible workers. Employers have a choice, in the marketplace, of a number qualifying workplace pension schemes that can be used to fulfil their automatic enrolment duties; including the National Employment Savings Trust (NEST). NEST has no set-up costs, and a public service obligation to accept any employer who meets their scheme’s terms and conditions.</p><p> </p><p>The Pensions Regulator provides guidance to employers on choosing a pension scheme for their staff in order to discharge their statutory obligations under automatic enrolment. This provides information about the choice between net pay and relief at source schemes, and the implications of net pay schemes for employees who do not pay tax.</p> answering member printed Baroness Buscombe grouped question UIN HL10793 HL10794 HL10795 question first answered 01/11/2018 13:23:08 answering member 3349 label Biography information for Baroness Buscombe
	tabling member	4533 label Biography information for Baroness Altmann

990460

	registered interest
	date	18/10/2018
	answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
	answering dept id	29
	answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
	answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
	hansard heading	Workplace Pensions: Tax Allowances
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government on what grounds they opted to automatically enrol low earners into a net pay pension scheme which forces them to pay 25 per cent more for their pension than they would do in a relief at source scheme.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Altmann
	uin	HL10793
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/11/2018 answer text <p>Automatic enrolment is a great success story with more than 9.9 million workers enrolled into workplace pension saving and over 1.3 million employers meeting their duties to date.</p><p> </p><p>Under automatic enrolment the employer is responsible for putting in place a qualifying workplace pension scheme for their eligible workers. Employers have a choice, in the marketplace, of a number qualifying workplace pension schemes that can be used to fulfil their automatic enrolment duties; including the National Employment Savings Trust (NEST). NEST has no set-up costs, and a public service obligation to accept any employer who meets their scheme’s terms and conditions.</p><p> </p><p>The Pensions Regulator provides guidance to employers on choosing a pension scheme for their staff in order to discharge their statutory obligations under automatic enrolment. This provides information about the choice between net pay and relief at source schemes, and the implications of net pay schemes for employees who do not pay tax.</p> answering member printed Baroness Buscombe grouped question UIN HL10792 HL10794 HL10795 question first answered 01/11/2018 13:23:08 answering member 3349 label Biography information for Baroness Buscombe
	tabling member	4533 label Biography information for Baroness Altmann

990461

	registered interest
	date	18/10/2018
	answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
	answering dept id	29
	answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
	answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
	hansard heading	Workplace Pensions: Tax Allowances
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to protect low earners from losing out on tax relief in automatic pension enrolment.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Altmann
	uin	HL10794
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/11/2018 answer text <p>Automatic enrolment is a great success story with more than 9.9 million workers enrolled into workplace pension saving and over 1.3 million employers meeting their duties to date.</p><p> </p><p>Under automatic enrolment the employer is responsible for putting in place a qualifying workplace pension scheme for their eligible workers. Employers have a choice, in the marketplace, of a number qualifying workplace pension schemes that can be used to fulfil their automatic enrolment duties; including the National Employment Savings Trust (NEST). NEST has no set-up costs, and a public service obligation to accept any employer who meets their scheme’s terms and conditions.</p><p> </p><p>The Pensions Regulator provides guidance to employers on choosing a pension scheme for their staff in order to discharge their statutory obligations under automatic enrolment. This provides information about the choice between net pay and relief at source schemes, and the implications of net pay schemes for employees who do not pay tax.</p> answering member printed Baroness Buscombe grouped question UIN HL10792 HL10793 HL10795 question first answered 01/11/2018 13:23:08 answering member 3349 label Biography information for Baroness Buscombe
	tabling member	4533 label Biography information for Baroness Altmann