45 WORK AND PENSIONS
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The Committee was nominated by the House of Commons
on 12 July 2010.
Members
Begg, Dame Anne (Chair)
Abrahams, Debbie (added 28.6.11)
Baldwin, Harriett
Bingham, Andrew (added 29.11.10)
Bradley, Karen
Buck, Ms Karen (discharged 2.11.10)
Cunningham, Alex (added 2.11.10; discharged 28.6.11)
Curran, Margaret (discharged 2.11.10)
Gilmore, Sheila (added 24.10.11)
Graham, Richard (discharged 29.11.10)
Green, Kate (discharged 24.10.11)
Heald, Mr Oliver
Jackson, Glenda (added 2.11.10)
Javid, Sajid (discharged 29.11.10)
Lewis, Brandon (added 29.11.10)
Lloyd, Stephen
Mahmood, Shabana (discharged 2.11.10)
Pearce, Teresa (added 2.11.10)
Overall Attendance:
| Meetings attended
59 out of 67
26 out of 32
60 out of 67
50 out of 55
61 out of 67
4 out of 8
16 out of 27
5 out of 8
21 out of 25
10 out of 12
37 out of 42
49 out of 67
46 out of 59
9 out of 12
37 out of 55
45 out of 67
7 out of 8
41 out of 59
79.1 %
|
Total number of meetings:
| 67 |
Of which: |
|
Number of meetings at which oral evidence was taken
| 32 |
Number of times oral evidence was taken partly or wholly in private
| 0 |
Number of wholly private meetings
| 35 |
Other activities | |
Informal meetings (including overseas visitors)
| 8 |
| |
Staff
Details of the permanent staff of the Committee during
the Session can be found in the Committee's publications.
Specialist Advisers during the Session
Dr Richard Dorsett, Professor Alan Macgregor, Mr
Ian Mulheirn, Professor Steve Wilcox, Mr Alan Woods, and Mr David
Yeandle
Witnesses
Oral evidence was given during this Session by the following categories of witnesses:
| |
Number of appearances by:
| |
Cabinet Ministers | 3
|
Ministers (other than Cabinet Ministers)
| 10 |
Members of the House of Lords
| 2 |
Number of appearances by officials from, or representatives of:
| |
Department for Work and Pensions
| 12 |
Department for Business, Innovation and Skills / Department for Education
| 1 |
Public Bodies and Non Ministerial departments:
| |
Child Maintenance and Enforcement Commission
| 2 |
The Pensions Regulator |
1 |
Appearances by other witnesses:
| 75 |
Overseas Visits
Date | Destination
| Members | Staff
| Purpose | Cost
|
28.2-4.3.11 | Wisconsin and New York
| Begg, Bradley, Green, Heald
| 3A | Inquiry into the Work Programme
| £39,306 |
A
Includes 1 facilitator
Visits to European Institutions
Date | Destination
| Members | Staff
| Purpose | Cost
|
7-8.12.10 | Brussels
| Begg, Baldwin, Bradley, Green, Heald, Lloyd
| 3A | EU developments within the remit of DWP
| £6,780 |
A
Includes 1 facilitator
UK Visits
Date | Destination
| Members | Staff
| Purpose | Cost
|
20.7.10 | Department for Work and Pensions, London
| Begg, Baldwin, Bradley, Buck, Curran, Graham, Green, Heald, Javid, Lloyd, Mahmood
| 6A | Induction briefing
| Nil |
19.10.10 | Wandsworth Citizens Advice Bureau, London
| Begg, Baldwin, Bradley, Green
| 3A | Inquiry into Changes to Housing Benefit announced in the June 2010 Budget
| Nil |
19.10.10 | Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, London
| Begg, Bradley, Graham, Green
| 2A | Inquiry into Changes to Housing Benefit announced in the June 2010 Budget
| Nil |
26.10.10 | Centrepoint, London
| Begg, Baldwin, Bradley, Green
| 3A | Inquiry into Youth Unemployment and the Future Jobs Fund
| £200 |
7.3.11 | Burnley
| Begg, Baldwin, Bingham, Bradley, Cunningham, Green, Heald, Lloyd, Pearce
| 4A | Inquiry into incapacity benefit
| £3,302 |
7.6.11 | Atos centre, Marylebone
| Begg, Baldwin, Bingham, Bradley, Green, Lloyd, Pearce
| 3A | Inquiry into incapacity benefit
| £107 |
21.6.11 | NEST offices (Borough, South London)
| Begg, Baldwin, Bingham, Bradley, Green, Pearce
| 3A | Inquiry into auto-enrolment
| £15 |
22.11.11 | Neath
| Begg, Abrahams, Bingham, Gilmore
| 4A | Inquiry into disability living allowance reform
| £3,529 |
A
Includes a facilitator
Reports and Oral and Written Evidence
Title | HC No. (2010-12)
| Date of publication
| Government reply
|
First Report: Youth Unemployment and the Future Jobs Fund
| 472 | 21.12.10
| Received 24.2.11: published as Fifth Special Report, Session 2010-12
|
Second Report: Changes to Housing Benefit announced in the June 2010 Budget
| 469 | 22.12.10
| Received 9.3.11: published as Fourth Special Report, Session 2010-12
|
Third Report: Appointment of the Chair of the Social Security Advisory Committee
| 904 | 1.4.11
| Not applicable |
Oral and Written Evidence: Appointment of the Chair of the Social Security Advisory Committee
| 904-II | 9.5.11
| Not applicable |
Fourth Report: Work Programme: providers and contracting arrangements
| 718 | 8.5.11
| Received 8.7.11: published as Sixth Special Report, Session 2010-12
|
Fifth Report: The Government's Proposed Child Maintenance Reforms
| 1047-I | 3.7.11
| Received 12.12.11: published as Eighth Special Report, Session 2010-12
|
Oral and Written Evidence: Government's proposed child maintenance reforms
| 1047-II | 4.7.11 | Not applicable
|
Sixth Report, The role of incapacity benefit reassessment in helping claimants into employment
| 1015 | 26.7.11
| Received 7.11.11: published as Seventh Special Report, Session 2010-12
|
Seventh Report: Government support towards the additional living costs of working-age disabled people
| 1493 | 19.2.12
| Awaited |
Seventh Report: Government support towards the additional living costs of working-age disabled people (Easy Read version)
| | 19.2.12
| Not applicable |
Written Evidence published on the Internet: Government support towards the additional living costs of working-age disabled people
| | 19.2.12 | Not applicable
|
Eighth Report: Automatic enrolment in workplace pensions and the National Employment Savings Trust
| 1494 | 15.3.12
| Awaited |
Written Evidence published on the Internet: Automatic enrolment in workplace pensions and the National Employment Savings Trust
| | 15.3.12 | Not applicable
|
First Special Report: The Child Maintenance and Enforcement Commission and the Child Support Agency's Operational Improvement Plan: Government Response to the Committee's Third Report of Session 2009-10
| 507 | 21.10.10
| Not applicable |
Second Special Report: Management and Administration of Contracted Employment Programmes: Government Response to the Committee's Fourth Report of Session 2009-10
| 508 | 21.10.10
| Not applicable |
Third Special Report: Local Housing Allowance: Government Response to the Committee's Fifth Report of Session 2009-10
| 509 | 21.10.10
| Not applicable |
Fourth Special Report: Changes to Housing Benefit announced in the June 2010 Budget: Government's response to the Committee's Second Report of Session 2010-12
| 845 | 10.3.11
| Not applicable |
Fifth Special Report: Youth Unemployment and the future Jobs Fund: Government Response to the Committee's First Report of Session 2010-12
| 844 | 14.3.11
| Not applicable |
Seventh Special Report: The role of incapacity benefit reassessment in helping claimants into employment: Government response to the Committee's Sixth Report of Session 2010-12
| 1641 | 11.11.11
| Not applicable |
Eighth Special Report: The Government's proposed child maintenance reforms: Government Response to the Committee's Fifth Report of Session 2010-12
| 1727 | 21.12.11
| Not applicable |
Oral and Written Evidence: Work of the Department for Work and Pensions
| 468 | 2.11.10
| Not applicable |
Oral and Written evidence: Universal Credit
| 743 | 7.3.11
| Not applicable |
Oral Evidence: The Government's pension reforms
| 846 | 26.4.11
| Not applicable |
Oral and Written Evidence: Remploy
| 1034 | 28.6.11
| Not applicable |
Written Evidence published on the Internet: Department for Work and Pensions Main Estimate 2010-11
| | 26.7.10
| Not applicable |
Oral and Written Evidence: Department for Work and Pensions Annual Report and Accounts 2010-11
| 1628 | 22.12.11 | Not applicable
|
Uncorrected Oral Evidence: The Work Programme
| 1903 | 22.3.12 | Not applicable
|
Uncorrected Oral Evidence: EU Pensions Policy
| 1911-i | 29.3.12 | Not applicable
|
Uncorrected Oral Evidence: EU Pensions Policy
| 1911-ii | 27.4.12 | Not applicable
|
Uncorrected Oral Evidence: Draft Order on the transfer of functions of the Child Maintenance and Enforcement Commission
| 1948 | 27.4.12 | Not applicable
|
Government replies to Reports for Session 2009-10
Reply to the Committee's Third Report: The Child
Maintenance and Enforcement Commission and the Child Support Agency's
Operational Improvement Plan, received 6.10.10 and published
as the Committee's First Special Report, Session 2010-12.
Reply to the Committee's Fourth Report: Management
and Administration of Contracted Employment Programmes, received
6.10.10 and published as the Committee's Second Special Report,
Session 2010-12.
Reply to the Committee's Fifth Report: Local Housing
Allowance, received 6.10.10 and published as the Committee's
Third Special Report, Session 2010-12.
Formal Minutes
The Formal Minutes of the Committee were published
electronically after each meeting of the Committee. They are available
on the Committee's website at http://www.parliament.uk/business/committees/committees-a-z/commons-select/work-and-pensions-committee/formal-minutes/.
Divisions
Date | Subject
|
8.2.12 | One, on the Chair's draft Report on Government support towards the additional living costs of working-age disabled people
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Debates
The following Report was debated in Westminster Hall:
Second Report, Session 2010-12, Changes to Housing
Benefit announced in the June 2010 Budget, HC 469, and the
Government response, HC 845, 10.3.11
The following Report and transcript were tagged as
being relevant to a debate in the House:
Oral evidence taken on the White Paper on Universal
Credit on 26 January and 9 February 2011, and written evidence
received, HC 743, 9.3.11
Fifth Report, Session 2010-12, The Government's
proposed child maintenance reforms, HC 1047, and the Government
response, HC 1727, 1.2.12
Number of oral evidence sessions for each inquiry
during the Session
Inquiry | Number of oral evidence sessions
|
Automatic enrolment in workplace pensions and the National Employment Savings Trust
| 6 |
Changes to Housing Benefit announced in the June 2010 Budget
| 2 |
Child Maintenance | 2
|
Departmental annual report and accounts 2010-11
| 1 |
Draft Order on the transfer of functions of the Child Maintenance and Enforcement Commission
| 1 |
EU Pensions Policy |
2 |
Migration to ESA | 3
|
The government's pension reforms
| 1 |
Pre-appointment hearing for the Chair of the Social Security Advisory Committee
| 1 |
Proposal to replace Disability Living Allowance with Personal Independence Payment
| 3 |
Remploy | 1
|
The Work Programme |
1 |
The Work Programme: providers and contracting arrangements
| 3 |
White Paper on Universal Credit
| 2 |
Work of the Department for Work and Pensions
| 1 |
Youth unemployment and the Future Jobs Fund
| 2 |
Total | 32
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