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.
The Conservatives pensions capability has been severely damaged with the loss of Nigel Waterson from the commons, the EEF says.
EEF, the manufacturers' organisation, has assembled a taskforce to examine pensions strategy and arrangements to carry the UK through to 2015 and further into the future.
As many as two in three manufacturing firms are in favour of some element of employer pensions compulsion, over and above current National Insurance, new research indicates.