Work and Pensions written question – answered at on 18 July 2011.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what uses his Department has made of the annual survey of hours and earnings data produced by the Office of National Statistics in the last three years.
The Department draws on both longitudinal and cross-sectional information from the annual survey of hours and earnings (ASHE) for a number of purposes. Key uses include:
helping to inform workplace pension reform, for example as part of the Making Automatic Enrolment Work (MAEW) review; monitoring trends in employee pension provision, membership and contributions; informing impact and equality assessments; helping to forecast state pension expenditure and caseloads; modelling the impact of policy changes on the pension landscape; supporting the evaluation of workplace pension reforms; helping to inform policy on sickness absence from work and statutory maternity payments.
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