WPC

Seven Labour, two Lib Dems and one Tory to serve on WPC with one vacancy left to fill

Nominations will take place until 9 September and a secret ballot is scheduled for 11 September

Appointments come as new prime minister Keir Starmer continues to build his party

Field was a former Work and Pensions Committee chair and a welfare champion

Dashboard staging dates, WPC report on DB schemes and general code comes into force

MPs comment on funding regime, surplus extraction and consolidation approaches

Reps from PLSA, PfP, IFoA, ShareAction and MMMM talk climate change requirements

Pensions minister said vision of having one professional trustee on every board is ‘optimistic’

TPR executives spoke at a Work and Pensions Committee hearing this morning

Government confirms new funding regime will be laid before parliament in ‘due course’