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Intergenerational fairness inquiry

Inquiry

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The inquiry aims to answer the question of whether the current generation of people in or approaching retirement will over the course of their lifetimes have enjoyed and accumulated much more housing and financial wealth, public service usage, and welfare and pension entitlements than more recent generations can hope to receive.

Questions the Committee is looking to address include:

  • What has been the collective impact on different generations of policies in recent years, including welfare reform and deficit reduction with areas of protected spending?
  • To what extent is intergenerational fairness a welfare issue?
  • What effects are these changes projected to have over time? Are they sustainable? What have the long-term trends been?
  • How does the welfare system interact with other areas of public expenditure and income and wealth in the wider economy, including issues of health, education and housing
  • Is the triple-lock necessary to prevent future increases in pensioner poverty?

Reports, special reports and government responses

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3rd Report - Intergenerational fairness
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Response to this report
6th Special Report: Intergenerational fairness: Government Response to the Committee's Third Report of Session 2016-17
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6th Special Report: Intergenerational fairness: Government Response to the Committee's Third Report of Session 2016-17
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Correspondence

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Frank Field to Martin Clarke re State pension age 8-3-2017
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Martin Clarke to Frank Field re state pension age increases 3-3-2017
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Reply to Committee on fuel poverty re winter fuel payments 22-02-17
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Oral evidence transcripts

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25 April 2016
Inquiry Intergenerational fairness inquiry
Witnesses Philip Booth, Editorial and Programme Director, Institute of Economic Affairs, Shiv Malik, Investigations Correspondent, The Guardian Paul Johnson, Director, Institute for Fiscal Studies, Andrew Hood, Research Economist, Institute of Fiscal Studies, James Sefton, Professor of Economics, Imperial College London
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2 March 2016
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Witnesses Rt Hon Lord Willetts, Executive Chair, The Resolution Foundation (formerly Minister of State for Universities and Science), Rt Hon Steve Webb, Director of Policy, Royal London (former Minister of State for Pensions)
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Oral Evidence
27 April 2016
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Witnesses Baroness Altmann, Minister for Pensions, Mary Pattison, Ageing Society and State Pensions Director, and Tom Younger, Deputy Director, Pensions Strategy and Analysis, Department for Work and Pensions.
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Professor James Sefton (IGF0075)
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Nutmeg (IGF0074)
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University of East Anglia & University of Essex (IGF0073)
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