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Non-commercial dashboards ‘must replicate’ public version – Counsell


By Jack Gray

Any non-commercial pensions dashboards that are developed “must replicate” the government-backed public dashboard, The Pensions Regulator (TPR) chief executive, Charles Counsell, has said

Speaking to the Work and Pensions Select Committee today, Counsell stated that non-commercial dashboards must “present the same information” as the public version.


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