Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the number of people who pay both the employer and employee auto-enrolment pension contribution.

The Department for Work and Pensions does not collect statistics on the number of employers, with automatic enrolment duties, who are also employees of the businesses they own. Since 2012, in Ellesmere Port and Neston constituency, approximately 7,000 eligible jobholders have been automatically enrolled into a workplace pension, and around 1,000 employers have declared compliance with their automatic enrolment duties.