Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent progress has been made on the Pensions Dashboard Prototype project.

The Association of British Insurers (ABI) led Dashboard Project Group delivered a prototype in April 2017, this proved that technology to connect everyone with their pensions in one place can be built. Following this the ABI-led Pensions Dashboard Project published their report “Reconnecting people with their pensions” in October 2017. This set out research findings and a number of recommendations on taking forward the project.

Within government DWP assumed responsibility for pensions dashboard policy from HMT on 19th October 2017. At Report stage of the Financial Guidance and Claims Bill, on 27^th October, Baroness Buscombe announced that the DWP would undertake a feasibility study and she set out the aims of the study.

We will be reporting the findings of the feasibility study in the Spring setting out next steps for the development and delivery of a pension dashboard.