Consultation outcome

Automatic enrolment: technical changes (2017)

• From: Department for Work and Pensions
• Published: 10 February 2017
• Last updated: 10 March 2017 — See all updates

This consultation has concluded

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Government response to the workplace pensions automatic enrolment miscellaneous regulations package 2017 consultation

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Detail of outcome

We published the government response to this consultation on 10 March 2017.

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Original consultation

Summary

This is a consultation on proposed technical changes intended to simplify the automatic enrolment process and reduce burdens on employers.

This consultation ran from
10 February 2017 to 4pm on 3 March 2017

Consultation description

This consultation is seeking views on regulations to make 2 changes to the automatic enrolment process. The changes are for new employers due to become subject to automatic enrolment duties during 2017. They are:

• a change to the automatic enrolment duties trigger set out in legislation for these new employers (known as post-staging employers)
• extending to these employers the option to defer automatic enrolment for their workers (currently this is available only to employers in the staging profile)

This consultation is aimed at:

• employers
• trade unions
• employee representatives
• pension industry professionals, including scheme administrators, payroll administrators, accountants, payroll bureaux, independent financial advisers and employee benefit consultants

Documents

Technical changes to automatic enrolment: consultation on draft regulations (Feb 2017)

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Published 10 February 2017
Last updated 10 March 2017 + show all updates

1. 10 March 2017

   Published the government response to this consultation.

2. 10 February 2017

   First published.