An accountant who is accused of failing to auto-enrol staff into a pension is facing prosecution by the The Pensions Regulator.

Paul Eugene Rewrie, 58, of Crewkerne in Somerset, is charged with “knowingly or recklessly providing false or misleading information to TPR.”

It is the third case the TPR has brought against an accountant for providing false or misleading information.

Mr Rewrie is the sole director of accountancy company PR Finance And Development Ltd, formerly Paul Rewrie Ltd.

He was the accountant for a Cambridge-based, family-run company and was hired to enrol its staff into a pension scheme, says the TPR.

He is accused of falsely declaring that staff at the company had been automatically enrolled into a workplace pension scheme, when he knew that was not the case.

Providing false or misleading information to TPR is an offence under section 80 of the Pensions Act 2004.

Mr Rewrie is facing one charge of knowingly providing false or misleading information to TPR.

He is due to appear at Brighton Magistrates Court on 8 January.