The Committee’s recently completed inquiry into Pension freedom and choice examined ways to ensure that people saving for their pensions are equipped to make well-informed choices, and are well served by the pensions marketplace. Our report on the British Steel Pension report found that scheme members were ‘shamelessly bamboozled’ by …
Work and Pensions Committee inquiry into disability employment.
The Committee has launched a new inquiry into the long-awaited White Paper Protecting defined benefit pension schemes (Cm 9591), published on 19 March 2018. Following the Committee's Defined Benefit Pension Schemes report, the inquiry aims to inform and influence the planned consultation on the White Paper’s various proposals. …
The European Social Fund (ESF) is a vital resource. It provides £500 million worth of employment and skills support funding every year for some of the UK’s most disadvantaged people and communities. When the UK leaves the EU, it will have to decide how to sustain this support. The Government …
The management and governance of Carillion, its sponsorship of its pension funds, and the implications for company and pension scheme law, regulation and policy.
The Work and Pensions and BEIS Committees have launched a new joint inquiry into the collapse of Carillion, leaving a mountain of debt, potential job losses …
The House of Commons decided on 5 December 2017 that the Government should provide the Committee with Project Assessment Reviews into Universal Credit carried out by the Infrastructure and Projects Authority (previously the Major Projects Authority) between 2012 and 30 November 2017. The Reviews were provided to the Committee on …
The Committee will undertake pre-appointment scrutiny of the new Chair of the Social Security Advisory Committee since the current Chair, Paul Gray has decided to step down at the end of his second term of office in July 2018.
The Parliamentary and Health Service and Ombudsman recently published a report on complaints about Access to Work. In its conclusion, the report raised concern about the impact of the cap set on Access to Work support.
This means funding for support workers is provided on the basis of an annual …
The Committee invites evidence from any interested parties on any or all of the following questions:
Benefits to savers and the wider economy: