Work and Pensions committee transcript: Protecting pension savers – five years on from the pension freedoms: Saving for later life - Apr 27

This inquiry is looking at saving for later life and what more needs to be done to help people plan and save for retirement.

The committee is interested in:

• Whether households in the UK have enough pension savings for retirement
• What advice and guidance people need when saving for retirement
• What the Government should be doing to support self-employed people to save for retirement
• What the Government could be doing to close the gender pension gap

Witnesses: Will Sandbrook (Managing Director for Strategy, Analytics and Nest Insight at NEST), Philip Brown (Director of Policy at B&CE, the People’s Pension), Darren Philp (Director of Policy and Market Engagement at Smart Pension), and Joanne Segars (Chair of the Board of Trustees at NOW:Pensions)

Witnesses: Jamie Jenkins (Director of Policy & External Affairs at Royal London), Colin Clarke (Head of Regulatory Change (Product Development), Workplace DC Pensions at Legal and General), Peter Glancy (Head of Pensions Policy at Scottish Widows), and Chris Noon (Equity Partner at Hymans Robertson)