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<p>Automatic enrolment has achieved a quiet revolution through getting employees into
the habit of pension saving, and reversing the decline in workplace pension participation
in the decade prior to these reforms. Workplace pension participation rates are being
transformed with 87% of eligible employees saving into one in 2018, up from 55% in
2012.</p><p> </p><p>The DWP does not hold data for individual constituencies in relation
to opt outs or the number of individuals who have saved above the automatic enrolment
minimum contribution level. However, we do know that overall around 9% of automatically
enrolled workers have chosen to opt out which is significantly below original estimates;
and our latest evaluation report shows that, in April 2017, approximately 5.9 million
eligible employees were already meeting the April 2019 minimum contribution rates.</p><p>
</p><p>In the Neath constituency, since 2012, approximately 3,000 eligible jobholders
have been automatically enrolled and 860 employers have met their duties.</p><p> </p><p>Automatic
Enrolment Evaluation Report 2018, available via the following weblink: <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/764964/Automatic_Enrolment_Evaluation_Report_2018.pdf"
target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/764964/Automatic_Enrolment_Evaluation_Report_2018.pdf</a>.</p><p>
</p><p>The Pensions Regulator’s data on Automatic enrolment declaration of compliance
by constituency, available via the following weblink: <a href="https://www.thepensionsregulator.gov.uk/en/document-library/research-and-analysis/data-requests"
target="_blank">https://www.thepensionsregulator.gov.uk/en/document-library/research-and-analysis/data-requests</a></p><p>
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