Guy Opperman restates AE plans for self-employed

Speaking at Old Mutual Wealth's fringe event at the Conservative party conference on 2 October, the minister (pictured) confirmed the plans for the self-employed as previously laid out in the Tory manifesto. Opperman said rolling out the planned increases to automatic enrolment (AE) was his first priority, but auto-enrolling the self-employed was high on the agenda. "The proposal without any shadow of a doubt is that we should do this," he said. Opperman said he was working with Matthew Taylor, author of the Taylor Review, who had suggested the self-employed should be auto-enrolled...