Significant numbers of people, particularly women, are not benefiting from the roll-out of auto-enrolment.

A TUC report published earlier this week has found that more than three million part-time women workers are excluded from workplace pensions.

The report, ‘Unfinished Business: Building a fresh consensus on workplace pensions’, finds from an analysis of official data that 4.6 million UK workers earn less than £10,000, which is the trigger amount for automatic enrolment into a pension, due either to their age or low earnings.