Govt to scrutinise NEST

Jenna Towler
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The coalition government will take a "long hard look" at auto-enrolment and the delivery of NEST before deciding on its future, Steve Webb says.

Speaking at a department for work and pensions briefing, the pensions minister said the Government had committed itself to auto-enrolment but the specifics of the last administration's roll-out plans would be reviewed. "What we said in the coalition agreement is we are committed to the principle of automatically enrolling people. There are many millions of people who have company pension schemes but do not have any private savings and both parties supported the principle," he said. "We put it in the deal that we will go ahead with automatic enrolment. What we have said is that we will...

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