The Pensions Dashboards Programme (PDP) has extended the deadline for the implementation of daily dashboards data reporting from pension providers and schemes.

Under the updated timeline, the daily disclosure of data to the Money and Pensions Service (Maps) via application programming interface (API) software, in accordance with the updated reporting standards, will be required from 1 March 2027.

In its consultation response, the PDP recognised that the initially proposed implementation date of 30 November 2026 was “compressed” and left little room for unforeseen circumstances arising throughout implementation that may cause delays.

The consultation raised concerns from industry stakeholders due to the potential risk of inadvertent non-compliance with the original deadline.

“We have listened to the concerns expressed that the proposed deadline would carry the risk that not all of industry may comfortably be able to expect to have completed implementation in time,” the PDP stated.

“It is clearly important that industry has a reasonable opportunity to comply.”

The programme said the extension would appropriately reduce the risk that some of the industry would not be able to have completed implementation ahead of the deadline and ensure it had ample opportunity to comply.

However, to ensure Maps and delivery partners can see key reporting data as early as possible, the PDP intends to require some manual reporting from autumn 2026 for any directly connected organisations that were yet to implement daily reporting.

“Manual reporting is the submission of data via file upload, as directly connected organisations have done already to report pension provider and scheme coverage,” the PDP explained.

This manual reporting will be made at to-be-confirmed regular intervals, in addition to the existing requirement to provide coverage data on request.

The PDP said it would confirm the precise requirements of the manual reporting in due course.

“We consider that our proposed approach to managing voluntary implementation [of daily reporting] of parties through a structured testing and assurance process in sequence, as soon as they can, from the summer, remains the right way to proceed,” the PDP added.

“This will ensure key reporting data is flowing through to Maps and regulators at the earliest opportunity.

“Since publishing the consultation, we have finalised and made available the test harness to support the first testing stage of system testing, and we are on track to support integration testing by the end of June.

“It remains our intention therefore that all parties should be able to report daily before the end of November 2026 and we remain fully committed to supporting this.”

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