On 28 February 2025, the House of Commons (HoC) Work and Pensions Committee announced that it would hold an evidence session to examine progress towards delivering online pensions dashboards, which are intended to enable individuals to find information on all of their pension pots and their value in one place.

While it is not yet clear when the first pensions dashboard will be introduced, pension schemes and providers are required to have their data ready for the dashboards by 31 October 2026. However, the Committee flags that recent news reports have raised concerns as to whether this is achievable.

In the evidence session, the Committee will therefore ask industry representatives about (among other things) their preparation to have the data ready to share by the autumn 2026 deadline and their experience of developing commercial dashboards. It will also question representatives from the Financial Conduct Authority and The Pensions Regulator, both of which have jurisdiction over elements of the dashboards project, on how they are working with each other and stakeholders to ensure reasonable and responsible regulation.

There will also be evidence from the Money and Pensions Service, which oversees the Pensions Dashboard Programme and construction of the Government’s MoneyHelper dashboard, on the industry reaction to and progress towards a staged connection between industry data and the dashboards (which aims to help prevent technical hitches on the deadline date for data preparation).