On 29 January 2010, the Pension Protection Fund published '2011/12 Pension Protection Levy Consultation Policy Statement: Insolvency Risk'.

The Pensions Regulator has issued a consultative paper on proposals for stepping up regulation of member record-keeping.

Numerous statutory instruments, constituting the rules for automatic enrolment of jobholders into workplace pension schemes, have been laid before Parliament.

The UK Government has concluded that sexual inequalities arising from GMPs should be removed and says that it will make consequential changes to the legislation.

On 24 November 2009 the Pensions Regulator launched a campaign aimed at encouraging good governance and administration, and better management of pension scheme risks.

The statutory Revaluation Order by reference to which deferred benefits will be increased for early leavers retiring in 2010 has been laid before Parliament.

On 6 April 2010 the normal minimum pension age increases from 50 to 55 years of age.

The Pre-Budget Report was delivered on 9 December 2009.

The Pension Protection Fund (PPF) has issued a consultation document on changes that it hopes will improve its assessment of the risk of sponsor insolvency, and thus the fairness of the levy.

The Pension Protection Fund has begun a consultation exercise on its proposals for the 2010/11 levies.

Dun & Bradstreet has altered the methodology that it uses to produce its ‘Failure Scores’.

The DWP has published further details of the proposed rules for automatic enrolment of 'jobholders' into workplace pension schemes.

The Government proposes to make changes so that some types of corporate transaction are no longer affected by the employer debt rules that apply to private sector defined benfit schemes.

The Registered Pension Schemes (Authorised Payments) Regulations 2009 have been laid before Parliament.

The Chancellor, Alistair Darling, delivered the 2009 Budget speech on Wednesday which included announcements with implications for pension schemes.

Draft Regulations have been published that give some details of the practicalities of auto-enrolment into pension schemes, expected to become a legal requirement from 2012.