Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what her Department's policy is on the future of the pensions dashboard; what the cost to the public purse was of the establishment of the dashboard; and what assessment she has made of the merits of the dashboard.

On Tuesday 4 September 2018, I published a written statement providing an update on pensions including the pensions dashboard. The statement can be found here: https://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-statement/Commons/2018-09-04/HCWS933/

Aside from the usual staff running costs, the costs to the Department to date for undertaking the pension dashboard feasibility study are around £100k. This covers the period from October 2017 when the Department assumed policy responsibility from HM Treasury, to end of August 2018 when we published the written statement.

We will shortly report on the findings of the feasibility study.