The Pensions Dashboards Programme (PDP) has published a consultation on its updated pensions dashboards reporting standards, seeking views on proposals to implement daily data reporting.

Its reporting standards outline requirements for pension providers and schemes for generating and recording information, and reporting it to the Money and Pensions Service (Maps), to support the dashboards ecosystem and regulators’ functions.

Current reporting standards (version 2.0) were approved by the government last year and only require the generation and retention of records, to be made available to Maps on request.

The PDP’s updated draft standards (version 2.1) consultation outlined the technical requirements for the routine submission of this data to Maps.

It does not change what data needs to be generated, recorded, and reported, just how the data should be reported to Maps.

The consultation proposed moving from ad hoc on-request reporting to daily reporting via an application programming interface (API).

The updated standards will require all required reporting data to be submitted to Maps via reporting API on a daily basis, with each connected party required to submit data for every connected pension provider or scheme.

For this to be implemented, all pension providers and their schemes connected to dashboards will need to build reporting systems capable of calling the central digital architecture (CDA) reporting API, built against the Maps API specification.

The PDP’s own CDA reporting API build is expected to complete in time to support testing with connected parties in the summer of 2026.

It proposed implementing the updated standards, with the requirement to have undergone all testing and to be submitting data by API on a daily basis, by 30 November 2026.

The consultation is open until 25 March 2026.

“Following this consultation, we will consider responses and publish a response, as well as publishing final reporting standards requirements, confirming the implementation deadline,” the PDP stated.

“As we have done previously for standards prior to their approval by the Secretary of State and Department for Communities, we will clearly identify the final requirements as ‘draft’ until approved.

“Once approved, we will publish the updated reporting standards, which will then take legal effect from the implementation date.”

Commenting on the draft standards, Lumera commercial director data & dashboards, Maurice Titley, said: “These updated draft reporting standards underline the direction of travel in the PDP towards more continuous, automated regulatory reporting.

“While the data to be reported remains unchanged, there is also some welcome clarification on what else needs to be monitored to ensure that schemes and providers remain compliant with the dashboards’ regulations, as we know that this will need them to go well beyond what is contained in the reporting standards.

“The move to routine daily submission via APIs also represents a meaningful shift in how firms are expected to demonstrate compliance."

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