Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the uptake of workplace pensions since that scheme's inception.

So far over 7 million people have been automatically enrolled into a workplace pension and more than 370,000 employers have declared their compliance.

We anticipate that around 10 million people will be saving or saving more as a result of automatic enrolment by 2018, generating an estimated £17 billion extra pension savings per year by 2019/20.

9 out of 10 workers are choosing to remain in their workplace pension scheme after being automatically enrolled.