Research and statistics

The Taskforce on Social Factors has produced this guide to support pension trustees in assessing the social risks and opportunities of their scheme’s investments.

• Document type: Independent report
• Organisation: Department for Work and Pensions
• Updated: 3 April 2024

• Quick start guide for pension trustees

  This guide from the Taskforce on Social Factors (TSF) aims to support…

• Guide from the Taskforce on Social Factors: Considering social factors in pension scheme investments

  Ministerial Foreword The UK is a world-leader in the occupational pension…

These annual statistics include detailed breakdowns of the number of savers, and the amount of savings.

• Document type: Official Statistics
• Part of a collection: Workplace pension participation and saving trends statistics
• Organisation: Department for Work and Pensions
• Updated: 22 November 2023

• Workplace pension participation and savings trends of eligible employees: 2009 to 2022

  This is the latest release of statistics on Workplace Pension…

• Workplace pension participation and savings trends statistics: Background information and methodology

  Context of the statistics Automatic enrolment (AE) was introduced in 2012…

This publication gives high-level estimates of the July 2023 package of private pensions announcements and the planned Automatic Enrolment 2017 Review measures.

• Document type: Research
• Part of a collection: Mansion House 2023
• Organisation: Department for Work and Pensions
• Updated: 11 July 2023

A high-level snapshot of the current landscape of occupational defined contribution (DC) trust-based pension provision in the UK.

• Document type: Official Statistics
• Organisation: Department for Work and Pensions and 1 others
• Updated: 26 January 2023

The Financial Survey of Pension Schemes (FSPS) is a quarterly survey that gathers information about income and expenditure, transactions, assets and liabilities of pension schemes. The information supplied forms part of the …

• Document type: Official Statistics
• Organisation: Office for National Statistics
• Updated: 23 June 2022

The Financial Survey of Pension Schemes (FSPS) is a quarterly survey that gathers information about income and expenditure, transactions, assets and liabilities of pension schemes. The information supplied forms part of the …

• Document type: Official Statistics
• Organisation: Office for National Statistics
• Updated: 24 March 2022

Membership and contributions to workplace pension arrangements for UK employees by type, age, industry, public and private sector, occupation and size of company. Compiled from the Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings.

• Document type: National Statistics
• Organisation: Office for National Statistics
• Updated: 4 March 2020

This research compares Accumulated Lifetime Total Reward for different occupational groups both before and after the 2015 public sector pension reforms.

• Document type: Research and analysis
• Organisation: Office of Manpower Economics
• Updated: 8 October 2019

This notice is about improvements to the methodology used for the 2018 edition of these statistics and how they would have affected the 2017 edition.

• Document type: Official Statistics
• Part of a collection: Workplace pension participation and saving trends statistics
• Organisation: Department for Work and Pensions
• Updated: 5 June 2019

These annual statistics include detailed breakdowns of measures for increasing the number of savers, and increasing the amount of savings.

• Document type: Official Statistics
• Part of a collection: Workplace pension participation and saving trends statistics
• Organisation: Department for Work and Pensions
• Updated: 5 June 2019

This report presents findings from a quantitative evaluation of the Pension Wise service in the financial year 2017 to 2018.

• Document type: Research
• Part of a collection: DWP ad hoc research
• Organisation: Department for Work and Pensions
• Updated: 16 April 2019

This report evaluates the implementation of automatic enrolment into workplace pensions.

• Document type: Research
• Part of a collection: Workplace pension participation and saving trends statistics and 1 others
• Organisation: Department for Work and Pensions
• Updated: 18 December 2018

This analysis supports the review of the earnings trigger and qualifying earnings band for automatic enrolment for the 2019 to 2020 financial year.

• Document type: Research
• Part of a collection: Automatic enrolment earnings trigger and qualifying earnings band
• Organisation: Department for Work and Pensions
• Updated: 4 December 2018