Type: Consultation Responses

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Protecting Defined Benefit Pension Schemes – A Stronger Pensions Regulator

This is a consolidated version of the responses submitted to the DWP using its online survey Background The DWP is seeking views on the first of the consultations promised by this year’s DB White Paper – Protecting defined benefit...

Master Trust Supervision and Enforcement Policy

Background TPR is consulting on its draft master trust supervision and enforcement policy, which sets out its approach to regulating master trust pension schemes. In this response General comments Supervision Enforcement General comments...

The draft Contracting-out (Transfer and Transfer Payment) (Amendment) Regulations 2018 – Sackers’ response to consultation

Background The DWP is consulting on draft regulations which are designed to enable bulk transfers of contracted-out rights to take place in certain circumstances without member consent, to schemes that have never been contracted-out. In...

Occupational Pension Schemes (Master Trusts) Regulations 2018 – Sackers’ response to consultation

Background The DWP is seeking views on the draft regulations that will fully commence the new authorisation and supervisory regime for Master Trust schemes under the provisions of the Pension Schemes Act 2017 (“the 2017 Act”). In this...