Pension freedom and choice inquiry

Inquiry by the Work and Pensions Committee, 13 September 2017 to 5 November 2019. Its page on the Parliament website.

Reports and responses

• 3rd Report - Protecting pensions against scams: priorities for the Financial Guidance and Claims Bill (11 December 2017)
• 6th Report - British Steel Pension Scheme (15 February 2018)
• 6th Special Report - Protecting pensions against scams: priorities for the Financial Guidance and Claims Bill: Government Response to the Committee’s Third Report (27 February 2018)
• 9th Report - Pension freedoms (5 April 2018)
• 9th Special Report - British Steel Pension Scheme: The Pensions Regulator Response to the Committee’s Sixth Report of Session 2017-19 (11 May 2018)
• 10th Special Report - Pension freedoms: Government response to Committee’s Ninth Report (22 June 2018)

Evidence sessions

• 1 November 2017: Baroness Ros Altmann, Former Pensions Minister, Michelle Cracknell, Chief Executive, The Pensions Advisory Service, Andrew Seager, Director, Citizens Advice, Peter Vicary-Smith, Chief Executive, Which?; Gary Bottriell, Board Member, Personal Investment Management & Financial Advice Association, Rob Yuille, Head of Retirement Policy, Association Of British Insurers, Otto Thoresen, Chairman, National Employment Savings Trust, Sir Steve Webb, Director of Policy, Royal London
• 15 November 2017: Nicola Parish, Executive Director of Frontline Regulation, The Pensions Regulator and Christopher Woolard, Director of Strategy and Competition, Financial Conduct Authority; Stephen Barclay MP, Economic Secretary to the Treasury, Guy Opperman MP, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Pensions and Financial Inclusion, Department for Work and Pensions, and Charlotte Clark, Director, Private Pensions and Arm's Length Bodies, Department for Work and Pensions.
• 13 December 2017: Rich Caddy, Shift Operations Manager, British Steel (Teesside), David Neilly, Plant Process Operator, Tata Steel UK (Port Talbot), Henry Tapper, Director, Pension PlayPen and First Actuarial, and Stefan Zaitschenko, Former steelworker (Teesside); Clive Howells, Managing Director, Celtic Wealth Management , and Darren Reynolds, Director, Active Wealth (UK) Ltd (at 10.10am); Megan Butler, Director of Supervision (Investment, Wholesale and Specialist), Financial Conduct Authority, Alasdair McDiarmid, Operations Director, Community trade union, Alan Johnston, Trustee Chairman and Derek Mulholland, Director of Pensions, British Steel Pension Scheme (at 10.50am).