The Pensions Dashboards (No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2023

Operational information and reporting

28.—(1) Trustees or managers must provide operational information upon request to any of the following—

(a) the Money and Pensions Service;

(b) the Regulator;

(c) the Financial Conduct Authority,

in accordance with reporting standards as published from time to time by the Money and Pensions Service or the Regulator.

(2) In this regulation, “operational information” means information that is relevant to—

(a) the operation of pensions dashboard services;

(b) monitoring compliance with the requirements prescribed in this Part;

(c) supporting the functions of the Regulator in respect of Parts 3 and 4.

(3) Information referred to in paragraph (2) may include (but is not limited to) information on the following—

(a) the number of find requests received;

(b) the matching process used by the scheme;

(c) in relation to positive matches—

(i) the number of matches made that are notified to the Money and Pensions Service, and

(ii) how quickly any possible matches were resolved;

(d) in relation to possible matches—

(i) the number of possible matches, and

(ii) how many of these resulted in a match being made, resulted in no match being made, or remained unresolved;

(e) the number of view requests received and the time taken to respond to each one;

(f) contacts received from users, including details of—

(i) queries about pensions information provided;

(ii) pensions not found following a search, and

(iii) complaints;

(g) any aspect of the processing of an individual’s request for pensions information.

(4) Information referred to in this regulation must be retained on record by trustees or managers for at least 6 years from the end of the scheme year to which it relates.