The great reformer - An exclusive interview with Steve Webb

Q: You’ve already stated in the coalition document that auto-enrolment will go ahead, but the future of NEST seems less certain. Will the coalition proceed with NEST? STEVE WEBB: This is the ‘making auto-enrolment work’ review, not the NEST review. So the commitment is there – we have a coalition programme for government and the very specific thing of auto-enrolment into workplace pensions is explicitly mentioned, so that’s a signal it’s taken very seriously. I do not want to pre-empt the review in any direction. So, for example, as you know, NEST comes into being on 5 July, and what ...