Publications

This Regulatory Impact Assessment considers the impact of changing the current automatic enrolment duties trigger date for post-staging employers to safeguard the operation of the automatic enrolment compliance regime and provide greater certainty to employers over when their

This Regulatory Impact Assessment sets out the policy objectives of the review of the automatic enrolment earnings trigger and qualifying earnings band for the 2017/18 year and the impact on, for example, individuals, employers and the pensions industry.

This Regulatory Impact Assessment considers the impact of imposing requirements on trustees of certain occupational pension schemes to ensure that there is effective governance of those schemes with respect to the effects of climate change, along with related reporting and pub

This Regulatory Impact Assessment considers the impact of providing for a new requirement for schemes to send members with ‘safeguarded-flexible’ benefits information about the guarantees those benefits offer, before they proceed to transfer, convert or flexibly ac

This Regulatory Impact Assessment considers changes to the timetable for the phasing in of increases in minimum automatic enrolment contributions, currently due to take place in October 2017 and October 2018.

This Regulatory Impact Assessment considers the impact of amending existing legislation to enable integrated pension schemes to continue to take account of the State pension when calculating pension payable, where the member has a State pension age later than age 65.

This Regulatory Impact Assessment considers the impact of introducing a restriction on the permitted charges that trustees or managers of certain occupational pension schemes can impose upon their members, for the investment administration and general scheme administration of

This Regulatory Impact Assessment considers the impact of amending existing Regulations to provide for a deferred debt arrangement to enable an employer in certain multi-employer occupational pension schemes to defer the requirement to pay an employer debt on ceasing to employ

This Regulatory Impact Assessment considers the impact of providing for a new requirement for trustees or managers of money purchase schemes that are occupational pension schemes to publish scheme transaction costs and administration charges, and to provide information to memb

This Regulatory Impact Assessment considers the impact of simplifying the conditions which must be satisfied for trustees or managers of pension schemes, or other parties who hold the right, to transfer groups of certain pension scheme members from one scheme to another withou

This Regulatory Impact Assessment considers the impact of introducing a requirement on trustees and managers of certain occupational pension schemes (defined contribution pension schemes) to ensure relevant beneficiaries are referred to appropriate pensions guidance, provided

A regulatory impact assessment relating to the introduction of minimum governance standards in defined contribution trust-based workplace pension schemes.  These standards will ensure good retirement outcomes for savers and build confidence in the workplace pensions indus

The Evaluation of the Neighbourhood Renewal Strategy – Final Review was carried out independently by RSM McClure Watters in late 2014. It gives an assessment of the delivery model, overall impact and the lessons learned. 
 

This Regulatory Impact Assessment considers the impact of a Statutory Rule that amends regulation 17 of the Occupational and Personal Pension Schemes (Disclosure of Information) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2014 which concerns the provision of annual pension benefit statemen

This Regulatory Impact Assessment considers the impact of introducing conditions that must be satisfied for the different ways that trustees or managers of occupational and personal pension schemes may permit a member of their scheme to use the cash equivalent value of, respec

This Regulatory Impact Assessment looks at the proposal to abolish the Statutory Sick Pay (SSP) record keeping requirements of employers thereby removing the cost to businesses associated with maintaining records for SSP and Percentage Threshold Scheme (PTS) purposes following

This stakeholder communication provides additional details on the new licensing scheme for House in Multiple Occupation, which DfC is aiming to introduce in April 2019.

This Regulatory Impact Assessment considers the impact of amending existing legislation to implement provisions of Directive (EU) 2016/2341 on the activities and supervision of institutions for occupational retirement provision (commonly known as “IORP II”) which r

This Regulatory Impact Assessment considers the impact of amending existing legislation to implement provisions of the European Union Directive (EU) 2016/2341 on the activities and supervision of institutions for occupational retirement provision (commonly known as “IORP