TUC Pensions Conference 2022 | Trades Union Congress (TUC) | 30 March 2022 | Online via Zoom

This conference will explore the successes and short-comings of auto-enrolment, a policy that has enjoyed cross-party support and brought an extra 10 million workers into occupational pension schemes.

It will also examine how pension policy must develop to ensure that these new members – and the workers still excluded from occupational pensions – can maintain a decent standard of living in old age.

Sessions will cover:

• Extending auto-enrolment to close the gender pensions gap
• Investing defined contribution pension pots productively while protecting members’ savings
• The role of collective defined contribution in improving outcomes for today’s DC members
• The case against further increases to the state pension age

2022 Speakers

Jonathan Ashworth
Shadow Secretary, Work and Pensions

Paul Nowak
Deputy General Secretary, TUC

Mark Serwotka
General Secretary, PCS

Sue Ferns
Senior Deputy General Secretary, Prospect union

Stephen Timms
Labour Member, Parliament for East Ham

Richard Holden
Member, Parliament (MP) for North West Durham

Fiona Steele
Deputy General Secretary, Aegis the Union

Joanne Segars
OBE/Chair of Board of Trustees, NOW Pensions

Hilary Salt
Founder, First Actuarial LLP

Harinder Mann
RSA

Kate Bell
Head of Rights, International, Social and Economics Department, TUC

Nigel Stanley
Chair, Members' Panel, National Employment Savings Trust

Dr. Iain Clacher
Professor of Pensions & Finance, Leeds University Business School

Mick McAteer
Co Director, The Financial Inclusion Centre

Josephine Cumbo
Global Pensions Correspondent, Financial Times

Alicia Minns
Multiple Employer Collective Pension Schemes Lead, Department for Work and Pensions (DWP)

Daniela Silcock
Head of Policy Research, Pensions Policy Institute

Sonia Kataora
Partner/Head of DC Investment, Barnett Waddingham