{"longTitle":"A Bill to make provision relating to pensions; and for connected purposes.","summary":"<p>The four parts of the Bill include a range of measures related to pension provision.</p><p><strong>Key areas</strong></p><ul><li>Accelerates the existing timetable for increasing the State Pension age to 66</li><li>Amends the legislative framework requiring employers to automatically enrol employees into a qualifying pension system and to make contributions to that scheme</li><li>Amends legislation providing for the indexation and revaluation of occupational pensions and payments from the Pension Protection Fund</li><li>Allows contributions to be taken towards the cost of providing personal pension benefits to members of Judicial Pension Schemes.</li></ul>","sponsors":[{"member":{"memberId":3893,"name":"Lord Freud","party":"Conservative","partyColour":"0063ba","house":"Lords","memberPhoto":"https://members-api.parliament.uk/api/Members/3893/Thumbnail","memberPage":"https://members.parliament.uk/member/3893/contact","memberFrom":"Life peer"},"organisation":{"name":"Department for Work and Pensions","url":"https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/department-for-work-pensions"},"sortOrder":1},{"member":{"memberId":152,"name":"Mr Iain Duncan Smith","party":"Conservative","partyColour":"0063ba","house":"Commons","memberPhoto":"https://members-api.parliament.uk/api/Members/152/Thumbnail","memberPage":"https://members.parliament.uk/member/152/contact","memberFrom":"Chingford and Woodford Green"},"organisation":{"name":"Department for Work and Pensions","url":"https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/department-for-work-pensions"},"sortOrder":2}],"promoters":[],"petitioningPeriod":null,"petitionInformation":null,"agent":null,"billId":815,"shortTitle":"Pensions Act 2011","formerShortTitle":null,"currentHouse":"Unassigned","originatingHouse":"Lords","lastUpdate":"2011-11-10T15:24:21","billWithdrawn":null,"isDefeated":false,"billTypeId":1,"introducedSessionId":24,"includedSessionIds":[24],"isAct":true,"currentStage":{"id":4570,"stageId":11,"sessionId":24,"description":"Royal Assent","abbreviation":"RA","house":"Unassigned","stageSittings":[{"id":4341,"stageId":11,"billStageId":4570,"billId":815,"date":"2011-11-03T00:00:00"}],"sortOrder":16}}