Children in poverty: Child Maintenance Service is the third and final part of the Committee’s wider inquiry into children in poverty, following on from the Measurement and targets, and no recourse to public funds.
The Committee will be looking to find out:
The Committee has held oral evidence sessions on the cost of living in February and March 2022. It is now seeking written evidence on how the Government can support people on Universal Credit, legacy benefits and the state pension through the next year.
You can send us written evidence until …
This inquiry is looking at saving for later life and what more needs to be done to help people plan and save for retirement.
We are interested in:
Universal credit and childcare costs
The Committee is looking into how well Universal Credit supports parents with childcare costs.
We're focusing on:
• The requirement for parents to cover childcare costs upfront.
• The maximum amounts that the Government will reimburse each month.
• How easy it is for parents …
Health assessments for benefits
The Committee is investigating the assessment processes for health-related benefits. These include PIP, ESA, Disability Living Allowance (DLA), Attendance Allowance and Industrial Injuries Disablement Benefit. The Committee is focusing on how the Department for Work and Pensions can improve the application and assessment processes for these …
Children in poverty: No recourse to public funds
This inquiry is looking at children in poverty. This is a complex subject, so the Committee’s work will be in several parts.
For the second part of the inquiry, we are looking at the experiences of children who have no recourse to …
This inquiry is looking at how the Health and Safety Executive manages the continued presence of asbestos in buildings.
We’ll be asking about the current risks posed by asbestos in the workplace, the groups of people who are most affected, and how well the current laws and regulations for the …
Pension stewardship and COP26
The UK will host the 26 UN Climate Council Conference of Parties COP26 in Glasgow between 1 and 12 November.
In March 2021, the Minister for Pensions and Financial Inclusion announced that “world leading regulations” will come into force ahead of COP26, following the Government’s consultation, …
Protecting pension savers – five years on from the Pension Freedoms: Accessing pension savings
This inquiry is looking at how savers are prepared and protected to move from saving for retirement to using their pension savings.
This is the second of our three-part inquiry, looking at decisions make about accessing …
Children in poverty: Measurement and targets
This inquiry is looking at children in poverty. This is a complex subject, so the Committee’s work will be in several parts.
For the first part of the inquiry, we are interested in finding out:
- how child poverty can most accurately be measured …