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<p><strong> </strong></p><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 North Durham constituency, since 2012, approximately 6,000
eligible jobholders have been automatically enrolled and 1,090 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: https://www.thepensionsregulator.gov.uk/en/document-library/research-and-analysis/data-requests</p>
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