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registered interest
date	24/01/2017
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Public Sector: Workplace Pensions
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what steps they take to inform public sector workers who earn less than £11,000 a year that they will not receive tax relief on pension contributions into public sector pension schemes.
tabling member printed	Baroness Altmann
uin	HL4902
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/02/2017 answer text <p>The Pensions Regulator (tPR) provides guidance to employers on choosing a pension scheme for their staff in order to discharge their statutory obligations under automatic enrolment. This guidance covers the choice between net pay and relief at source schemes, and the implications of net pay schemes for employees who do not pay tax. All employers, including public sector employers, are expected to follow tPR’s guidance about providing their employees with relevant information on the arrangements for tax relief.</p><p>The Government appreciates the concerns for low paid workers enrolled in net pay schemes. However, it has not been possible to identify any straightforward or proportionate means to align the effects of the net pay and relief at source mechanisms more closely for this population. In particular, it is not possible to know an individual’s final earnings until after the end of the tax year. While employers will know an employee’s salary from a single job, neither employers nor pension schemes are currently required to know whether an employee also has alternative sources of income. Requiring them to gather this information would create a disproportionate burden, and many employees may not wish to share this information with their employer.</p><p> </p><p>The Government does not therefore plan to oblige employers to reimburse their low paid employees if they are enrolled in net pay schemes, as this would not be possible to implement effectively.</p> answering member printed Baroness Neville-Rolfe grouped question UIN HL4838 HL4839 HL4903 question first answered 06/02/2017 17:13:12 answering member 4284 label Biography information for Baroness Neville-Rolfe
tabling member	4533 label Biography information for Baroness Altmann

662025

registered interest
date	19/12/2016
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Public Sector: Workplace Pensions
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many public sector workers who earn less than £11,000 a year belong to a public sector pension scheme provided by their public sector employer.
tabling member printed	Baroness Altmann
uin	HL4195
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/01/2017 answer text <p>The Government does not centrally collate data on the annual earnings of public sector workers.</p><p> </p><p>Defined Benefit public sector pension schemes operate on a net pay basis. The Partnership scheme, which is a defined contribution scheme open to civil servants and other public sector workers, operates a relief at source system for payment of pension contributions.</p><p> </p><p>The Pensions Regulator provides all employers with guidance on how different forms of administering pensions tax relief affect different employees. This guidance is available on its website and it applies to public sector employers in the same way as private sector employers. It is up to the individual schemes how they communicate this information to their employees.</p> answering member printed Baroness Neville-Rolfe grouped question UIN HL4194 HL4196 HL4197 question first answered 05/01/2017 14:31:38 answering member 4284 label Biography information for Baroness Neville-Rolfe
tabling member	4533 label Biography information for Baroness Altmann

662026

registered interest
date	19/12/2016
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Public Sector: Workplace Pensions
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many public sector workers who earn less than £11,000 a year and belong to public sector pension schemes are in receipt of the equivalent contribution for basic rate tax relief.
tabling member printed	Baroness Altmann
uin	HL4196
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/01/2017 answer text <p>The Government does not centrally collate data on the annual earnings of public sector workers.</p><p> </p><p>Defined Benefit public sector pension schemes operate on a net pay basis. The Partnership scheme, which is a defined contribution scheme open to civil servants and other public sector workers, operates a relief at source system for payment of pension contributions.</p><p> </p><p>The Pensions Regulator provides all employers with guidance on how different forms of administering pensions tax relief affect different employees. This guidance is available on its website and it applies to public sector employers in the same way as private sector employers. It is up to the individual schemes how they communicate this information to their employees.</p> answering member printed Baroness Neville-Rolfe grouped question UIN HL4194 HL4195 HL4197 question first answered 05/01/2017 14:31:38 answering member 4284 label Biography information for Baroness Neville-Rolfe
tabling member	4533 label Biography information for Baroness Altmann

662027

registered interest
date	19/12/2016
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Public Sector: Workplace Pensions
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what guidance they provide to public sector employers on the steps they should take to ensure their low-paid workers do not lose basic rate tax relief on their pension contributions, even if they are non-taxpayers; and what steps they take to inform low-paid workers about their pension contributions.
tabling member printed	Baroness Altmann
uin	HL4197
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/01/2017 answer text <p>The Government does not centrally collate data on the annual earnings of public sector workers.</p><p> </p><p>Defined Benefit public sector pension schemes operate on a net pay basis. The Partnership scheme, which is a defined contribution scheme open to civil servants and other public sector workers, operates a relief at source system for payment of pension contributions.</p><p> </p><p>The Pensions Regulator provides all employers with guidance on how different forms of administering pensions tax relief affect different employees. This guidance is available on its website and it applies to public sector employers in the same way as private sector employers. It is up to the individual schemes how they communicate this information to their employees.</p> answering member printed Baroness Neville-Rolfe grouped question UIN HL4194 HL4195 HL4196 question first answered 05/01/2017 14:31:38 answering member 4284 label Biography information for Baroness Neville-Rolfe
tabling member	4533 label Biography information for Baroness Altmann