Charles Counsell

More than 160 employers were issued fixed penalties of £400 last year after The Pensions Regulator (TPR) ramped up the use of its powers for auto-enrolment failures.

Pensions minister Steve Webb has confirmed its intention to have a pot follows member system to consolidate small pots in place by autumn 2016.

The Pensions Regulator (TPR) has revealed plans to publish a list of approved auto-enrolment vehicles to help the smallest employers find a scheme.

Three employers have been issued fixed penalties of £400 in The Pensions Regulator's (TPR) first use of fines for failures related to auto-enrolment (AE).

More than four million employees have now been automatically enrolled in a workplace pension, according to The Pensions Regulator (TPR).

The Pensions Regulator used its formal powers to ensure employers comply with their automatic enrolment duties on 23 separate occasions up to the end of June this year.

The Pensions Regulator (TPR) investigated 785 cases of potential non-compliance with auto-enrolment (AE) between April 2013 and March 2014, latest figures reveal.

The Pensions Regulator (TPR) has relaxed proposed guidelines on how trustees and providers of auto-enrolment schemes should report missed payments, after concerns were raised by the industry.

The Pensions Regulator has published its first update detailing the number of employers which have registered meeting their auto-enrolment duties, and indicates scheme membership has increased.

Awareness of and confidence in auto-enrolment has increased in firms of all sizes but small and micro-employers still have work to do, research from the Pensions Regulator says.