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Department for Work and Pensions

This report presents the findings of the Employers' Pension Provision (EPP) Survey conducted in the spring of 2003. The survey is the fifth of its kind, with previous surveys conducted in 1994, 1996, 1998 and 2000.

EPP is a telephone survey of a representative sample of around 2000 private sector employers in Great Britain. The key objectives of the survey are to monitor the extent and nature of pension provision among private sector employing organisations in Britain. It collects data on the characteristics of organisations who do, and do not, make pension provision. It provides details of any significant changes to provision in the last few years and any planned changes. Additional questions on topics of interest are asked (for example, in 2000 it included questions about trustee related issues, pension sharing on divorce and the Minimum Funding Requirement).

Note that the results relating to employer contributions are based on questions asking about average member and employer contributions over the last 3 years (the latter may or may not include the NI rebate). Contribution rates are presented as medians in the report.

Latest results available from the DWP website (pdf)

This page last revised: Wednesday, 20 October 2004