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Oral evidence transcripts

Work and Pensions Committee

Committee documents that were published online before May 2010 are available by session on the Pre-2010 Publications page.

Total results 373 (page 11 of 19)
11 March 2020
Work Money and Pensions Service (Non-inquiry session)
Oral Evidence
4 September 2019
Inquiry School holiday poverty inquiry
Witnesses Stephanie Ellis, Manager, Welcome Network, Jan Lefley, Community Manager, Romsey Community School, Dr Caroline Wolhuter, Head of Innovation and Impact, Accord Group, and Ian Stevenson, Service Manager, Neighbourhood Management, Gateshead Council; Lord Agnew, Minister for the School System, Sarah Lewis, Director, System Leadership and Strategy (Early Years and Schools), Department for Education, Will Quince MP, Minister for Welfare Delivery, and Donna Ward, Policy Director, Department for Work and Pensions (at 10.15am).
Oral Evidence
23 October 2019
Inquiry Two-child benefit limit inquiry
Witnesses Harun Khan, Secretary General, Muslim Council of Britain, Tom Sefton, Economics and Social Policy Adviser, Church of England, Chaya Spitz, Chief Executive, Interlink Foundation
Oral Evidence
22 May 2019
Inquiry Universal Credit and Survival Sex: sex in exchange for meeting survival needs inquiry
Witnesses T, B, K and M, Laura Seebohm, Executive Director, Innovation and Policy, Changing Lives, Dr Raven Bowen, Chief Executive Officer, National Ugly Mugs, Sarah McManus, Chief Executive Officer, A Way Out, and Amber Wilson, Business Development and Marketing Manager, Basis Yorkshire; Helen McDonald, Member of the Management Committee, Nordic Model Now!, Blair Buchanan, Activist and Organiser, representing SWARM, and Niki Adams, Spokesperson, English Collective of Prostitutes (at 10.50am).
Oral Evidence
16 October 2019
Inquiry Ongoing work on DWP priorities and performance inquiry
Witnesses Rt Hon Dr Thérèse Coffey MP, Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, Department for Work and Pensions, Peter Schofield, Permanent Secretary, Department for Work and Pensions, and John-Paul Marks, Director General, Work and Pensions, Department for Work and Pensions.
Oral Evidence
24 July 2019
Inquiry Ongoing work on DWP priorities and performance inquiry
Witnesses Rt Hon Amber Rudd MP, Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, Department for Work and Pensions, Neil Couling CBE, Change Director General and Senior Responsible Owner, Universal Credit, Department for Work and Pensions, Emma Haddad, Director General - Service Excellence, Department for Work and Pensions
Oral Evidence
24 July 2019
Inquiry Executive pensions inquiry
Witnesses Ged Nichols, General Secretary, Accord, Dominic Hook, National Office for Finance, Unite the Union
Oral Evidence
17 July 2019
Inquiry Support for the bereaved
Witnesses Will Quince MP, Minister for Family Support, Housing and Child Maintenance, Department for Work and Pensions, Helen Walker, Deputy Director, Children, Families and Disadvantage, Department for Work and Pensions
Oral Evidence
10 July 2019
Inquiry Spending Review inquiry
Witnesses Paul Johnson, Director, Institute for Fiscal StudiesRobert Chote, Chairman, Office for Budget Responsibility, Andy King, member of the Budget Responsibility Committee, Office for Budget Responsibility
Oral Evidence
3 July 2019
Inquiry School holiday poverty inquiry
Witnesses Karen Rotheram, Parent, Dawn Taplin, Parent, Nichola Salvato, Parent, Anne Newbould, ParentMartha Mackenzie, Director of UK Poverty Policy, Advocacy and Campaigns, Save the Children, Abby Jitendra, Policy and Research Manager,The Trussell Trust, Megan Jarvie, Head of Coram Family and Childcare, Ema Wilkes, Director, Neo Community, Sophie Howes, Senior Policy and Research Officer, Child Poverty Action Group
Oral Evidence
15 May 2019
Inquiry Overpayments of Carer's Allowance
Witnesses Sir Amyas Morse KCB, Comptroller and Auditor General, National Audit Office; Peter Schofield, Permanent Secretary, Emma Haddad, Director General, Service Excellence Group, and Laura Squire, Head of Fraud, Error and Debt, Strategy, Policy, and Change, Department for Work and Pensions (at 10.15am).
Oral Evidence
26 June 2019
Inquiry The work of The Pensions Regulator inquiry
Witnesses Charles Counsell, Chief Executive, The Pensions Regulator
Oral Evidence
19 June 2019
Inquiry Support for the bereaved
Witnesses David Collingwood, Director of Funerals, Co-op Group, Paul Allcock, UK Government Liaison - Executive Committee, National Society of Allied and Independent Funeral Directors (SAIF), Jeremy Field, Past President, National Association of Funeral Directors (NAFD), Simon Cox, Head of Insight and External Affairs, Dignity
Oral Evidence
19 June 2019
Inquiry Executive pensions inquiry
Witnesses António Horta-Osório, Group Chief Executive, Lloyds Banking Group plc, Stuart Sinclair, Independent Director and Chair of the Remuneration Committee, Lloyds Banking Group plc, Pauline van der Meer Mohr, Chairman of Remuneration Committee, HSBC, Alex Lowen, Group General Manager and Head of Group Performance, HSBC
Oral Evidence
12 June 2019
Inquiry Universal Credit and Survival Sex: sex in exchange for meeting survival needs inquiry
Witnesses Will Quince MP, Minister for Family Support, Housing and Child Maintenance, Neil Couling, Universal Credit Senior Responsible Owner, and Donna Ward, Policy Director, Children, Families and Disadvantage, Department for Work and Pensions.
Oral Evidence
5 June 2019
Inquiry Support for the bereaved
Witnesses Joana Crookall, Nikki Haxton-Jones, Fiona Shakesby, Kathryn Ford, Lalena Walkley, and Joana Niemeyer, Members of Widowed and Young; Alison Penny, Director, Childhood Bereavement Network, Scott Sinclair, Head of Policy and Public Affairs, Marie Curie, Sarah Gigg, Director of Nursing, Sue Ryder, and Georgia Elms, Campaign Spokesperson and former Chair, WAY Widowed & Young (at 10.15am).
Oral Evidence
17 October 2018
Inquiry Ongoing work on DWP priorities and performance inquiry
Witnesses Peter Schofield, Permanent Secretary, Department of Work and Pensions; Nick Joicey, Finance Director General, Department of Work and Pensions; and Tara Smith, Finance Director Central Services, Department of Work and Pensions
Oral Evidence
24 April 2019
Inquiry No DSS: discrimination against benefit claimants in the housing sector inquiry
Witnesses Helena McAleer, Landlord, Lynne Mapp, Mother of tenant, Philipa Lalor, Tenant, Greg Beales, Director of Communications, Policy and Campaigns, ShelterPaul Wootton, Director of Home Proposition, Nationwide Building Society, Lloyd Cochrane, Head of Mortgages, National Westminster Bank plc, Gordon Soutar, Managing Director of Mortgages, The Co-operative BankGlynis Frew, Chief Executive Officer, Hunters Property Group, Adam Hyslop, Founder, OpenRent, Helen Buck, Executive Director - Estate Agency, Your Move, Matt Campion, Chief Executive, Shepherds Bush Housing Association
Oral Evidence
3 April 2019
Inquiry Pension costs and transparency inquiry
Witnesses Guy Opperman MP, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Charlotte Clark, Strategy Director for Private Pensions, Department for Work and Pensions, and John Glen MP, Economic Secretary, HM Treasury.
Oral Evidence
11 March 2019
Inquiry Benefit freeze
Witnesses Rt Hon Amber Rudd MP, Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, Neil Couling, Director General, Universal Credit Programme, Donna Ward, Policy Director, Children, Families and Disadvantage
Oral Evidence
Total results 373 (page 11 of 19)