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 enable auto-enrolment to pensions from 18 years of age.

The Government remains committed to enabling Automatic Enrolment (AE) into workplace pensions from age 18, consistent with our 2017 AE Review proposals. That is why we are supporting Jonathan Gullis’s Private Members’Bill, which had its second reading on Friday 3 March; this presents an immediate route for the necessary legislative powers in the current Parliamentary session. The Bill includes a statutory requirement to consult and report on the outcomes to inform the implementation approach and timing, before using these powers.