The Pensions Regulator's (TPR) enforcement activity hit a record high in 2017/18 after it intervened in twice as many cases as the previous year, research has found.
Between 1 April 2017 and 30 March 2018, TPR undertook about 102,000 enforcement actions, almost exactly double the 50,000 its activity in 2016/17, and representing 63% of all enforcement action since April 2013, research from law firm Clyde & Co revealed. The watchdog also received nearly 5,000 whistleblowing reports, up more than a third on the previous year, while also dishing out £11.5m of fixed penalty notices (£4.9m in 2016/17). The 2017/18 period includes the end of the rollout of automatic enrolment (AE), with the final small and micro-employers staging by February this year. ...
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