Silentnight intervention costs TPR £1.4m in external costs

James Phillips
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The Pensions Regulator (TPR) has incurred around £1.4m of external costs during its anti-avoidance investigation of the Silentnight pension scheme.

The charges, published in response to a Freedom of Information (FoI) request, are in addition to internal costs and an undisclosed amount for funding a defence against a judicial review of its inve...

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