Pensions dashboard should be voluntary, TPR chair

Calls for steering group to oversee project

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Pension providers should not be forced to provide customer data for a new pensions dashboard, the chair of workplace pensions regulator the Pensions Regulator (TPR), has said.

Speaking at a conference in London on 16 May, Mark Boyle said it was his "personal preference" that providers volunteer their data to a "pensions dashboard" rather than be compelled to do so. Former Pensions Minister Steve Webb, now policy director at Royal London, had called on the government to step in to drive the initiative forward. But Boyle said he believed legislating to force providers to supply data to the dashboard was not currently needed, as the commitment was already in place to get the project off the ground, the FT wrote. He told delegates at the conference: "There i...

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