TPR issues nearly 1,000 section 72 information requests in nine years
The Pensions Regulator (TPR) has issued 937 requests for information under section 72 of the Pensions Act 2004 since its records began in 2010.
In a Freedom of Information Request (FoI) response published last month, the watchdog revealed the highest number of requests in a year was in 2016, when they amounted to 158, and the lowest was in 2010,...
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