Feb. 06 2024
Source Page: Engaging with Pensions at timely momentsFound: Engaging with Pensions at timely moments
Mentions:
1: Viscount Younger of Leckie (Con - Excepted Hereditary) At the time, many employers were already offering their employees a workplace occupational pension through - Speech Link
2: Baroness Janke (LD - Life peer) Have the Government taken any action on the pensions gender gap? - Speech Link
Feb. 20 2012
Source Page: Workplace pension reform - automatic enrolment and European employers. Consultation paper on draft regulations. 12 p.Found: Workplace pension reform - automatic enrolment and European employers.
Written Evidence Mar. 21 2024
Inquiry: Impact of the rising cost of living on womenFound: But nonetheless, the pension savings gap perpetuates since contributions to workplace pensions are
Asked by: Robert Buckland (Conservative - South Swindon)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of the time taken to make an autism assessment on employment rates.
Answered by Mims Davies - Minister of State (Department for Work and Pensions)
There are no plans for DWP to make this specific assessment. Whilst we recognise the importance of early identification of autism, a diagnosis is not required to be eligible for reasonable adjustments and the provision of workplace support. These are made, in line with the requirements of the Equality Act 2010, based on functional need.
We are, as you know, encouraging employers to adopt more neuro-inclusive working practices, which benefit neurodiverse employees irrespective of whether they have a diagnosis.
The SoS and I were delighted to see the launch of your excellent Review into Autism Employment on the 28th of February, which has created a focus for action to improve the recruitment and retention of autistic people. It has identified workplace barriers, and the working practices and initiatives that can reduce them, to create a more inclusive working environment for autistic employees and autistic jobseekers.
We now look towards supporting how the 19 recommendations in the report can be implemented to encourage a more neuro-inclusive culture in the workplace.
This is supported by Disability Confident, our scheme to increase employers’ understanding of how to recruit, retain and support disabled employees and the Support with Employee Health and Disability online service which guides employers through health and disability scenarios at work, including making reasonable adjustments.
Asked by: Henry Smith (Conservative - Crawley)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps his Department is taking to help people save for the future.
Answered by Paul Maynard - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Work and Pensions)
Retirement saving has been transformed with over 11 million employees put into workplace pensions since 2012.
We are committed to the expansion of Automatic Enrolment in the mid-2020s. Our reforms will benefit younger workers and increase overall amounts being saved, with 3m people saving £2bn extra a year.
Asked by: Jim Shannon (Democratic Unionist Party - Strangford)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether he is taking steps to encourage young people under the age of 18 to opt in to pensions.
Answered by Paul Maynard - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Work and Pensions)
The 2017 Review of Automatic Enrolment (AE) sets out our ambition to reduce the qualifying age for AE below 22, so that younger workers can begin to save as soon as they join the labour market.
The government supported the Pensions (Extension of Automatic Enrolment) Act 2023 which gives us the legislative powers to implement this expansion of AE subject to consultation with employers and workers. Government is committed to make this change in the mid-2020s.
In the meantime, the current AE framework allows workers who are not automatic enrolled to opt-in to a workplace pension, including those below age 22, and many employers already choose to enrol those workers.
Mentions:
1: None That is why we are honouring the triple lock by increasing the basic and new state pensions by 8.5% from - Speech Link
2: None That is why we have reformed the state pension as well as workplace pensions, improving the retirement - Speech Link
3: Baroness Sherlock (Lab - Life peer) Labour’s 2005 Pensions Commission called for 15 years’ notice. - Speech Link
4: Viscount Younger of Leckie (Con - Excepted Hereditary) Also, we are increasing the basic and new state pensions by 8.5% from next month. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Bob Seely (Con - Isle of Wight) Not only was their rate of pay often not the same when they were in the workplace, but they now find - Speech Link
2: Mick Whitley (Lab - Birkenhead) Women born in the 1950s were at the forefront of the fight for equal pay and rights in the workplace. - Speech Link
3: Chris Stephens (SNP - Glasgow South West) of these women are still fighting for equal pay and looking for compensation for unequal pay in the workplace—or - Speech Link
4: Gill Furniss (Lab - Sheffield, Brightside and Hillsborough) By the time they are 46, half of all women will have taken time out of the workplace for care purposes - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Griffin, Mark (Lab - Central Scotland) devolution and introduction of this new benefit, in line with its agreement with the Department for Work and Pensions - Speech Link
2: Somerville, Shirley-Anne (SNP - Dunfermline) There is no possibility of renegotiating the agency agreement with the Department for Work and Pensions - Speech Link
3: Stevenson, Collette (SNP - East Kilbride) That is because the Scottish Government’s agency agreement with the Department for Work and Pensions - Speech Link
4: Briggs, Miles (Con - Lothian) Scotland states: “With less than two years until the agency agreement with the Department for Work and Pensions - Speech Link
5: Griffin, Mark (Lab - Central Scotland) in my opening remarks, the Scottish Government’s agency agreement with the Department for Work and Pensions - Speech Link