Benefit levels in the UK: Work and Pensions Committee holds first evidence session of inquiry
The first oral evidence session of the Work and Pensions Committee’s inquiry into benefit levels in the UK will feature representatives of organisations with experience operating across the benefit system.
Meeting details
The first panel will focus on welfare provision and policy in the different UK nations, before the second panel is questioned on the experiences of specific groups such as families, carers and people with health conditions and disabilities.
In a scoping session for the inquiry in March, the Committee heard from think tanks and academics on topics including how benefit levels have historically been set and how benefit policy has interacted with the labour market.
The inquiry follows the Committee’s cost of living report from July last year which called on Ministers to review the adequacy of benefit levels. The Government responded that ”there was no objective way of deciding what an adequate level of benefits should be”.