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The Pensions Regulator

Providing information to the Pensions Regulator

Providing information to the Pensions Regulator

Providing information to the Pensions Regulator

In order to identify and reduce risks to members' benefits, the Pensions Regulator requires a range of information about pension schemes and employers. These are our main sources of information:

The scheme return

All schemes are required to complete a regular scheme return. This provides us with a wide range of information about schemes, including details of membership, sponsoring employers, trustees, advisers, administration, funding and investment.

As an employer, you need to ensure that trustees have sufficient information about your company to be able to provide up-to-date, accurate details to the regulator. You must continue to provide the trustees and their advisers with any information they reasonably need to carry out their duties.

Reporting

Where a breach of the law happens, and it is likely to be materially significant to the regulator, employers and others involved in running the scheme will have a legal duty to report the breach to us.

Notifiable events

You have to tell us without delay about certain 'notifiable' events. These are specific events which are likely to have a major impact on the security of member's benefits. Employers must notify us of 'employer-related' events – for example, a decision to seek to compromise a debt owed to a scheme. Trustees must notify us of 'scheme-related' events such as a significant reduction in scheme membership.