Members of the Education and Work and Pensions Select Committees have decided to undertake an inquiry that will consider how the Government can ensure it will deliver a successful Child Poverty Strategy.

On 5 December 2025, the Government published its  Child Poverty Strategy, which it estimates will lift …

Nearly one million young people aged 16–24 are not in employment, education or training (NEET). This is a worrying statistic given the harm that being NEET can do to young people’s prospects and wellbeing. To tackle this problem, the Government has recently transferred the skills remit to DWP and announced …

The last time the State Pension age went up there was a jump in the number of pre-pensioners (people aged 60+ but below pension age) in poverty. This group are the joint poorest among working age adults.

We are launching this inquiry to consider the case for providing additional …

Millions of children and parents are served by the Child Maintenance Service. But is it working as effectively as it could be so that the best interests of the child are being met?

The Government has recently proposed changes to how the Child Maintenance Service administers payments. This inquiry …

With the disability employment gap persistently at nearly 30%, the Government has announced it will spend an additional £2.2 billion on employment support over the next four years.

The Committee will explore the reasons behind the disability employment gap, scrutinise Government programmes to support disabled people into work and …

The Work and Pensions Committee is undertaking a short inquiry into the impact of the Government’s proposals to reform the disability and health related benefits system, as set out in the Pathways to Work Green Paper.

The Committee is not putting out a call for evidence, but the terms …

The Work and Pension Committee is conducting an inquiry into jobcentres, the first in a series of inquiries in response to the Government’s Get Britain Working White Paper.

The Government has set itself a target of achieving 80% employment and is planning “the biggest reforms to employment support …

The Committee has launched an inquiry into Pensioner Poverty: challenges and mitigations.

The Government’s decision to restrict the Winter Fuel Payment eligibility and to hold a pensions review has raised the question of pension adequacy. 

We are launching this inquiry looking at the state of pensioner poverty in …

In our July 2023 Report Plan for Jobs and employment support, we considered DWP’s employment support provision following the Covid-19 pandemic, at which point UK labour statistics showed a substantial increase in the number of people who were economically inactive. 

During that inquiry, we found that increased devolution …

Disabled people face significant barriers to work that non-disabled people do not, and despite employers having a legal duty to make reasonable adjustments in the workplace to accommodate them, there is evidence to suggest that many are not making these changes. Whilst the disability employment rate has risen in recent …