The chairman of the Work and Pensions Committee Frank Field has written a letter to the pensions minister urging him to commit now to legislation for the pensions dashboard.
In the letter - sent on 29 November - Field pressed Guy Opperman to take action - noting that industry representatives are "keen to get started" but "urgently need the government to announce its intentions so that they can prepare". It comes amid concerns that the government seems to be stepping back from the project, leaving it solely up to the industry to deliver the dashboard, which is due to launch in April 2019. The letter noted that the government must make it clear it is going to bring forward legislation to require firms to provide access to customer data. It said that, withou...
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