Committees

Work and Pensions Committee

Commons Select Committee

The Work and Pensions Committee looks into the policies and spending of the Department for Work and Pensions, including benefits for people in and out of work, state pensions and how private pensions are regulated. It also scrutinises DWP’s public bodies and other regulators. You can follow the Committee on X (formerly Twitter) using @CommonsWorkPen.

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Reports, special reports and government responses

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Fourth Report - Statutory Sick Pay
Inquiry Statutory Sick Pay
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HC 148
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1st Special Report - Statutory Sick Pay: Government Response
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HC 787
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1st Special Report - Statutory Sick Pay: Government Response
Inquiry Statutory Sick Pay
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HC 787
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Second Report - Benefit levels in the UK
Inquiry Benefit levels in the UK
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HC 142
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Third Special Report - Benefit levels in the UK: Government’s response to the Committee’s Second Report
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HC 798
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Correspondence

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Correspondence from the Minister for Pensions, in response to the Chairs letter of 31st January, regarding the non-indexation of pre-1997 rights
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Correspondence from the Minister for Pensions, relating to the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman’s report on 1950s women – options for remedy
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Correspondence from the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, relating to the Pathways to Work: Reforming Benefits and Support to Get Britain Working Green Paper
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Oral evidence transcripts

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1 April 2025
Inquiry Pensioner Poverty: challenges and mitigations
Witnesses Lauren McKechnie (Chief Executive at Age UK Bolton), Paul McGarry (Head at Greater Manchester Combined Authority’s Ageing Hub), Jo Rowlands (Head of Financial Inclusion at Leeds City Council), Trish Martin (Advice Services Manager at Southway Housing), Jo Volpe (Chief Executive at Leeds Older People’s Forum), Sue Forster (Welfare Benefits Co-ordinator at Citizens Advice Liverpool), and Idowu Khadijat Morafa (Founder and Director at Across Ummah CIC)
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1 April 2025
Inquiry Get Britain Working: Reforming Jobcentres
Witnesses Andy Burnham (Mayor of Greater Manchester at Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA))
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26 March 2025
Inquiry Pensioner Poverty: challenges and mitigations
Witnesses Dr Juliet Stone (Research Fellow at Centre for Research in Social Policy, Loughborough University), Dr Kingsley Purdam (Lecturer, Social Statistics at Manchester University), Professor Matt Padley (Co-Director of the Centre for Research in Social Policy at Loughborough University), Daphne Hall (Co-Chair at National Association of Welfare Rights Advisers (NAWRA)), Gareth Morgan (CEO at Ferret Information Systems), and Gary Vaux (Head of Money Advice at Hertfordshire County Council)
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Written evidence

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Citizens Advice Liverpool (PPCM0056)
Inquiry Pensioner Poverty: challenges and mitigations
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Migrant Help (RJ0092)
Inquiry Get Britain Working: Reforming Jobcentres
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Sense (RJ0094)
Inquiry Get Britain Working: Reforming Jobcentres
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Other publications

Government Responses
The Government has undertaken to respond to most committee reports within two months, although there are exceptions to this rule.
15 published
Formal Minutes
Formal minutes produced for committee meetings.
13 published
Scrutiny evidence
Evidence received in the course of conducting legislative scrutiny.
4 published
Attendance statistics
Statistics for the attendance at committee meetings.
4 published
Estimate memoranda
Explanatory memoranda that accompany Government Estimates.
38 published
Engagement documents
Documents relating to committee engagement activities, such as forums, surveys or ‘roundtable’ events with experts and stakeholders that the committee has chosen to make public.
6 published
Older evidence
Written evidence and oral evidence transcripts transferred from our archive website.
198 published
Other documents
Other documents connected to the committee's work.
134 published
Pre-2010 publications
Committee documents published online before May 2010.

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  • Email: workpencom@parliament.uk
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  • Address: Work and Pensions Committee | House of Commons | London | SW1A 0AA