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Pensions: Advisory Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what proportion of defined contribution pensions were accessed after a Pension Wise guidance appointment in each of the last five years.

answeredDepartment for Work and Pensions

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Answering body
Department for Work and Pensions
Tabled
3 Jan 2025
Target answer date
7 Jan 2025
Answer
13 Jan 2025 · 10 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 3 Jan 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what proportion of defined contribution pensions were accessed after a Pension Wise guidance appointment in each of the last five years.

  2. 7 Jan 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 13 Jan 2025

    Answer published

    The information is not available. There are two sources which provide relevant data in relation to the request. The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) publish the number accessing a pension pot in the contract-based market (from 2015/16 to 2023/24) and whe...

Open official record

Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

Later records

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