DWP issues a written ministerial statement on pensions dashboards connection timeline
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has today issued a written ministerial statement providing an update on the timeline for connecting to pensions dashboards. The statement explains that the Pensions Dashboards Programme (PDP) will be unable to meet the connection deadlines set out in legislation, and the timeline will need to be revised. PDP is working with DWP to establish a new and achievable plan for delivery.
Continue readingTwelve months at the Pensions Dashboards Programme
In April 2021, the UK was emerging from a long lockdown with pubs, restaurants, hairdressers and non-essential shops opening up again. It feels like a long time ago, even though it’s only twelve months. At the Pensions Dashboards Programme (PDP) I took up the role of Programme Director.
Continue readingDiscovery to alpha: starting to build pensions dashboards
Richard James, Pensions Dashboards Programme (PDP) Programme Director, discusses the progress the programme has made during its discovery phase with Capgemini and what will happen during its initial (alpha) test phase.
Continue readingTwelve months of pensions dashboards progress
Rather than the 12 days of Christmas, I’m looking back on 12 months of pensions dashboards. Less tuneful maybe, but certainly action packed. In fact, it feels like our feet have barely touched the ground since this time last year. So much has changed since we released the first iteration of data standards in December 2020 and the dark days of last January’s lockdown.
Continue readingPensions Dashboards Programme seeks potential front-end pensions dashboard providers to support technology testing
The Pensions Dashboards Programme (PDP) is inviting organisations that intend to provide a pensions dashboard to help test the development of the pensions dashboards ecosystem. In addition to running tests with the Money and Pensions Service (MaPS) dashboard, PDP intends to work with up to three commercially-developed potential dashboards, to ensure the technology and its standards work for different types of dashboard providers.
Continue readingThe ecosystem technical working group: accessing industry expertise to refine standards
Helen Scriminger, Standards and Governance Lead at the Pensions Dashboards Programme, provides an update on the programme's latest working group and how it's contributing to the development of technical standards.
Continue readingPensions Dashboards Programme appoints Capgemini to supply central digital architecture
The Pensions Dashboards Programme (PDP) signed a contract with Capgemini for the delivery of its central digital architecture. Over the coming months, Capgemini will deliver the pensions finder service, consent and authorisation service, and governance register, which will form a key part of the pensions dashboards ecosystem.
Continue readingProcurement of an identity solution: interim provider sought via G-cloud 12
The Pensions Dashboards Programme will deliver an identity service under the governance and controls regime provided by the UK Digital Identity and Attributes Trust Framework. As this trust framework will not be available during our alpha and beta testing phases, PDP will procure a single identity supplier via G-Cloud 12, during October 2021, for a two-year period.
Continue readingCall for input on staging
With thousands of data providers (ie pension provider and schemes) needing to connect to the pensions dashboards ecosystem, this process will take place in stages. Our call for input on staging outlines the proposals for the order and timing of when data providers will connect to the pensions dashboard ecosystem.
Continue reading Download call for input on stagingArchitecture brief for suppliers
The architecture brief for suppliers is a technical document, which explains the functionality of the digital architecture that sits at the heart of the pensions dashboards ecosystem. The Pensions Dashboards Programme (PDP) created the document as part of its pre-tender engagement with suppliers, before the official start of its technical architecture procurement.
Continue reading Download architecture brief
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