Work and Pensions Committee

The cross-party Work and Pensions Committee has today launched its new inquiry on the Government’s welfare reform proposals, Pathways to Work. 

Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham will be among the witnesses when the House of Commons Work and Pensions Committee holds a public evidence session in Manchester Town Hall as it continues its inquiry into reforming Jobcentres.

Today the Government announced reforms to health and disability social security support when they published ‘Pathways to Work: Reforming Benefits and Support to Get Britain Working’. This has particularly focused on changes to incapacity and disability benefits as well as health assessments. The Government has said that the reforms will enable more people with chronic long term health conditions, or who are disabled, to return to and stay in work.

The Work and Pensions Committee will hold an evidence session examining progress towards delivering online pensions dashboards that would enable people to find information on all their pension pots and their value in one place.

MPs on the Work and Pensions Committee will hold an evidence session on the role of local authorities and housing associations in tackling pensioner poverty.

MPs on the cross-party Work and Pensions Committee will question Disabilities Minister Sir Stephen Timms on how the Department for Work and Pensions protects vulnerable people engaged with the benefit system.

The Work and Pensions Committee will question the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) leadership on the watchdog’s work.

Top officials from the Department for Work and Pensions will be questioned on its annual accounts on Wednesday.   The cross-party Work and Pensions Committee are likely to grill the Department’s representatives among other things on its historic failure to get fraud and error under control. 

A new inquiry into Jobcentre reform has been launched by the cross-party Work and Pensions Committee. The inquiry is the first in a series from the Committee scrutinising proposals in the Government’s Get Britain Working white paper published on 26th November 2024. 

Members of the Committee will seek an update of the situation facing claimants, and on DWP policies and processes under the new Government before it reports its findings

MPs on the cross-party Work and Pensions Committee will hear from experts from key think tanks and pensioners’ representatives including Age UK about the state of pensioner poverty in the UK and how it could be reduced.

The Chairs of two influential House of Commons Committees have jointly written to the Government to get answers on the work of the Child Poverty Taskforce.

The cross-party Work and Pensions Committee has today launched its new Pensioner Poverty: challenges and mitigations inquiry.

An inquiry into how vulnerable claimants for benefits including Universal Credit can be better safeguarded by the Department for Work and Pensions, has been reopened by MPs on the cross-party Work and Pensions Committee.

Liz Kendall will be questioned by the cross-party Work and Pensions Committee on 13 November.

The House of Commons has formally appointed the membership of the Work and Pensions Committee.

Debbie Abrahams MP elected Chair of the Work and Pensions Committee

Nominations open for the Work and Pensions Committee Chair

Following the dissolution of Parliament on 30 May 2024, all select committees have ceased to exist.

The PAC and WPC Committees call on the Government to provide better information on the decision to bring forward the date for migrating Employment and Support Allowance claimants to Universal Credit