An industry-wide awareness week on Pensions Dashboards will return in September with online events designed to encourage knowledge sharing, insight, and best practice as companies prepare for the dashboards connections starting in eight months.

Yvonne Braun, director of policy for long-term savings, health and protection at the Association of British Insurers trade body has been awarded an OBE in the King’s Birthday Honours list.

The Society of Pension Professionals (SPP) has joined other trade bodies in urging the government to think again on its proposals for lifetime provider pension pots.

The National Audit Office has warned that a rise in supplier costs and the delivery timetable being extended by two years have increased the government’s Pensions Dashboards programme’s estimated cost by 23%.