Whistleblowing (Pensions) meaning

In this issue: Investigating criminal conduct Decision to prosecute and alternatives to prosecution Sentencing Bribery, corruption, sanctions and export controls Cybercrime and data protection offences Environmental offences Financial services and pensions offences Food safety and hygiene offences Fraud, forgery, tax and theft offences Health and safety and corporate manslaughter offences Daily and weekly news alerts New and updated content Dates for your diary Trackers Useful information Investigating criminal conduct Whistleblowing in the UK—Still a long road ahead Rahman Ravelli’s legal director, Dr Angelika Hellweger, together with associate, Tatiana Novikova, examine how the UK handles whistleblowing. They map out the present UK statutory position and other relevant mechanisms, assess the scope of the safeguards they afford, and set these against the options open to whistleblowers in the United States of America. They also describe the HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) whistleblower reward initiative announced near the end of 2025,...

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In this issue: Brexit highlights Brexit SIs Post-Brexit transition guidance Equality and human rights Judicial review Freedom of information Public procurement Subsidy control and State aid Public sector pensions State accountability and liability Free webinars: Judicial Review: Practice and Procedure Pt 1 and 2 LexTalk®Public Law: a Lexis®Nexis community Daily and weekly news alerts New and updated content Dates for your diary Trackers Useful information Brexit highlights Institute for Government explainer on UK–EU summit outcome The Institute for Government has released an explainer following the inaugural UK–EU Summit in London, setting out the freshly announced results of the UK–EU reset. See: LNB News 03/06/2025 43. Weekly round-up of EU–UK TCA Specialised Committees’ publications—30 May 2025 This summary covers publications issued by Specialised Committees created under the EU–UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement (TCA) for the period 27–29 May 2025. See: LNB News 30/05/2025 15...

The Pensions Regulator’s scheme management enforcement strategy explains its approach to compliance and enforcement across defined benefits funding, defined contribution and public service pension schemes, while also describing the outcomes TPR may pursue and the means by which it could achieve them, all to strengthen safety and security for pension savers. Its prosecution policy and broader enforcement strategy set out the principal aims of its enforcement activity and give insight into the framework TPR applies when deciding which cases to take forward for enforcement action. Initial considerations in TPR investigations In its capacity as the UK regulator for work-based pension schemes, TPR has a suite of information-gathering powers to identify and track risks and to obtain evidence to support criminal prosecutions. These include: requiring reports of breaches of the law and notifiable events requiring reports prepared by skilled persons on specified issues compelling trustees and employers to provide documents and other information the power to inspect premises For more...

THIS PRACTICE NOTE RELATES TO REGISTERED OCCUPATIONAL PENSION SCHEMES STOP PRESS 1: On 18 November 2025, the Pensions Regulator (TPR) urged trustees to treat member data as their foremost ‘strategic asset’ so schemes are prepared for pensions dashboards by the final connection date of 31 October 2026. After engaging with hundreds of schemes, TPR noted improvements in data quality but pointed to gaps in value data and excessive reliance on administrators, warning that neglect could put dashboard compliance at risk. It also issued refreshed member data guidance that brings together all existing data-related guidance, sets out clearer expectations for trustees and shares best practice to strengthen data management capability. TPR adds that it is reviewing data readiness among the UK’s largest schemes and will step up engagement in 2026. For more information, see LNB News 18/11/2025 43. STOP PRESS 2: On 19 November 2025, the Pensions Administration Standards Association (PASA) released guidance, ‘The Six Data Quality Dimensions for Pension Scheme Member Data’, together with a supporting...

Statutory duty to whistleblow Under the Pensions Act 2004 (PeA 2004, s 70), those connected with pension schemes must notify the Pensions Regulator (TPR) of certain legal breaches where there is reasonable cause to think the matter is likely to be of material significance to TPR. This obligation is widely referred to as the duty to whistleblow. For more detail on the breadth of the obligation, see: Who is required to whistleblow? and What needs be reported?, below. The statutory obligation takes precedence over any inconsistent obligations an individual owes (for example, a confidentiality duty to the scheme’s sponsoring employer). Submitting a report to TPR does not infringe such additional, conflicting or existing (eg confidentiality) obligations. Section 103A of the Employment Rights Act 1996 protects employees who make a report to TPR. The scope and application of the duty feature in TPR’s General Code. TPR has also published guidance (the whistleblowing guidance) to assist trustees in judging whether a breach of law should be reported. This guidance includes illustrative...