Esther McVey allays dashboard fears and backs industry to deliver

125,000 signed petition

Tom Ellis
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Work and pensions secretary Esther McVey has backed the pensions industry to deliver the pensions dashboard after months of uncertainty surrounding the project.

In July reports emerged that McVey was set to kill off government support for the project before, the next day, pensions minister Guy Opperman declined to deny the dashboard was being canned. In response to the previously unaddressed rumours more than 125,000 signed a petition to save the dashboard project. The dashboard was first mooted in the 2016 Budget and the government has always envisaged the project completing in 2019. McVey (pictured) said today: "The pensions landscape is transforming and the dashboard offers a great opportunity to give people straightforward access to their...

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