The Conservatives voted against a batch of regulations governing auto-enrolment in a House of Commons committee yesterday.
The opposition party lost the vote but made an attempt to block the Occupational and Personal Pension Schemes (Automatic Enrolment) Regulation 2010 which set out the framework for auto-enrolment. Pensions minister Angela Eagle says the Tories had "thrown their toys out of the pram". She says: "I am astonished that the Tories have thrown their toys out of the pram just when the prize of pension saving for millions of people on low and medium earnings is in sight. This is breathtaking irresponsibility. "The Tories are being disingenuous and hypocritical by talking in favour of the con...
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