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 Mel Stride. Corresponding to...
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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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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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the Lords Committee on Public Service and Demographic Change. The Commons select committees are generally responsible for overseeing the work of 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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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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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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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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Runnymede and Weybridge with 54.9% of the vote and a majority of 18,270. He is currently a member of the Work and Pensions Select Committee. On 3 October...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Mark Harper (section Early life and education)
fit-for-work assessment, although two House of Commons select committees – the Work and Pensions Committee and the Public Accounts Committee – had between...
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Audit Committee and the Work and Pensions Select Committee having previously sat on both the Health and Social Care Select Committee and the Science and technology...
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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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Selaine Saxby (section Early life and career)
Devon with 56.5% of the vote and a majority of 14,813. She has been a member of the Work and Pensions Select Committee since March 2020. In October 2020...
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Debbie Abrahams (category Labour Friends of Palestine and the Middle East)
and Saddleworth with a decreased vote share of 39.4% and an increased majority of 6,002. She was elected as a member of the Work and Pensions Select Committee...
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sex work. In 2019 Laura Watson from the ECP gave evidence to the Work and Pensions Select Committee which was examining the link between sex work and poverty...
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Karen Buck (category Labour Friends of Palestine and the Middle East)
joined the Social Security Select committee, and after the 2001 general election she joined the Work and Pensions Select Committee. In 2001, her appointment...
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Kate Green (section Parliamentary Committees)
the Work and Pensions Select Committee, European Scrutiny Committee, Justice Select Committee, Committee of Privileges, Commons Select Committee on Standards...
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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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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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Social Security select committee in 1998, and after the 2001 general election its replacement, the Work and Pensions Select Committee, on which he remained...
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Jeremy Quin (section Early life and career)
57.3% of the vote and a majority of 24,658. In July 2015, he was elected as a member of the Work and Pensions Select Committee, and held this position...
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