DWP annuity and pension charge reform 'stalled', say MPs

In its report, Monitoring the performance of the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) in 2013-14, the committee said it had expected to carry out pre-legislative scrutiny on the government's DA proposals by now. However, although the government consulted on DA in autumn last year, it has yet to publish a response. The committee said in its report: "The momentum for bringing forward these proposals may have stalled. "It is important, as auto-enrolment (AE) widens out to the whole of the working population, and with the continuing closure of private sector defined benefit (DB) sche...