Work and Pensions Select Committee is a select committee of the House of Commons in the Parliament of the United Kingdom. The remit of the committee is...
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performance of the secretary of state is also scrutinised by the Work and Pensions Select Committee. The office is currently held by Liz Kendall. Corresponding...
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Education and Employment Select Committee - split in 2001 into the Education and Skills Select Committee and the Work and Pensions Select Committee following...
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politics, parliamentary select committees are cross-party groups of MPs or Lords which investigate specific issues or scrutinise the work of the Government...
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Terry Rooney (politician) (category Graphical, Paper and Media Union-sponsored MPs)
Bradford North from 1990 to 2010. He chaired the Work and Pensions Select Committee from 2005 to 2010, and was the first member of the Church of Jesus Christ...
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most vocal critics. Field was elected chair of the Work and Pensions Select Committee in 2015, and was re-elected unopposed following the 2017 general...
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Debbie Abrahams (category Labour Friends of Palestine and the Middle East)
share of 35.2% and an increased majority of 6,357. In September 2024, she was elected chair of the Work and Pensions Select Committee. In March 2018,...
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Anne Begg (section Education and early career)
2015. A member of the Labour Party, she was Chair of the Work and Pensions Select Committee from 2010 to 2015. Upon her election to Parliament, Begg became...
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Jobcentre Plus (redirect from Work Assist)
Discrimination Act 1975. According to figures obtained by the Work and Pensions Select Committee during 2005–2006, the number of employees within the organisation...
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Amanda Hack (section Early life and education)
House of Commons, Hack was elected as a member of the Work and Pensions Select Committee. Garrett, Lee (5 July 2024). "North West Leicestershire elects...
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for Runnymede and Weybridge with 54.9% of the vote and a majority of 18,270. He is a former member of the Work and Pensions Select Committee. On 3 October...
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Carillion (category Construction and civil engineering companies established in 1999)
by the Business and the Work and Pensions Select Committees said Carillion's collapse was "a story of recklessness, hubris and greed, its business model...
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Philip Green (redirect from Philip and Cristina Green)
BHS, Green called the inquiry biased, and wrote to Frank Field, the chair of the Work and Pensions Select Committee, "I therefore require you to resign...
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Universal Credit (section Work disincentives)
children who start work must pay child care early and wait for Universal Credit to repay them later, the Work and Pensions Select Committee reported. The WPSC...
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appointments. In 2015, the Pension Wise website was criticised by the Work and Pensions Select Committee as having a low take up of Pension Wise appointments....
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Four were described by Member of Parliament (MP) and chair of the Work and Pensions Select Committee Frank Field as "feasting on what was soon to become...
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Alex Burghart (section Early life and education)
on Human Rights and the Work and Pensions Select Committee. He chairs the APPG on Adverse Childhood Experiences and was made PPS to the prime minister...
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politician and his predecessors Bailey and Boothroyd. He has been a member of the Work and Pensions Select Committee since March 2020 and was a member...
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Defence Select Committee between 1997 and 2001, and has been a member of the Work and Pensions Select Committee since 2005. On 31 October 2006, Cohen...
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had been "wrecked", and as stated by Frank Field MP, Chairman of the Work and Pensions Select Committee, in a letter to the Pension Protection Fund - "Compared...
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Graham Evans, Baron Evans of Rainow (category Conservative Party (UK) Baronesses- and Lords-in-Waiting)
the Work and Pensions Select Committee after being elected in November 2012. He sat on the backbench 1922 Executive Committee between Autumn 2012 and January...
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Field MP, Chairman of the House of Commons' Work and Pensions Select Committee, said "DPD have been told time and again that their punitive regime is totally...
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Heidi Allen (section Early life and career)
Conservative majority and taking 51.1% of the votes cast. In July 2015, Allen was elected to the Work and Pensions Select Committee. Allen made her maiden...
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Harriett Baldwin (section Early life and career)
vote and a majority of 6,754. During the coalition government under Prime Minister David Cameron, she was a member of the Work and Pensions Select Committee...
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Aberdeenshire and Kincardine with 47.9% of the vote and a majority of 7,950. From October 2017 until June 2018, he was a member of the Work and Pensions Select Committee...
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had once contested his seat. In parliament he served on the Work and Pensions Select committee 2001–5. He also served for a year as the Parliamentary Private...
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capacity of a standing committee. A select committee is usually created by a resolution that outlines its duties and powers and the procedures for appointing...
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September 2017 Frank Field, Labour MP and chair of the Commons work and pensions select committee, said he had written to Mike Ashley, the billionaire Sports...
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the Work and Pensions Select Committee, a position which he held until October 2016. Williams then served as a member of the Welsh Affairs Select Committee...
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of the Work and Pensions Select Committee between June 2018 and November 2019 and the Women and Equalities Committee between September 2017 and June 2018...
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