Oral Answers to Questions — Work and Pensions – in the House of Commons at 2:30 pm on 13 January 2014.
Andrew Jones
Conservative, Harrogate and Knaresborough
2:30,
13 January 2014
What recent assessment he has made of trends in auto-enrolment.
Steve Webb
The Minister of State, Department for Work and Pensions
I am pleased to update the House and say that more than 2.5 million workers have now been automatically enrolled into a workplace pension. That puts us roughly a quarter of the way through the entire programme of automatic enrolment.
Andrew Jones
Conservative, Harrogate and Knaresborough
What have the Government done to ease the burdens on employers, particularly the small and medium-sized enterprises that play such a dominant role in the business mix in my Constituency?
Steve Webb
The Minister of State, Department for Work and Pensions
My hon. Friend is quite right. Every change that we have made to the administration of automatic enrolment has been designed to reduce the burden on firms. For example, we have raised the wage threshold at which people are automatically enrolled, and we have delayed the staging for the smallest firms so that no one who employs fewer than 50 people will have to stage before April 2015.
In a general election, each Constituency chooses an MP to represent them. MPs have a responsibility to represnt the views of the Constituency in the House of Commons. There are 650 Constituencies, and thus 650 MPs. A citizen of a Constituency is known as a Constituent
