The Work and Pensions Committee
The Work and Pensions
Committee is appointed by the House of Commons to examine the
expenditure, administration, and policy of the Department for
Work and Pensions and its associated public bodies.
Current membership
Dame Anne Begg MP (Labour, Aberdeen South)
(Chair)
Debbie Abrahams MP (Labour, Oldham East and Saddleworth)
Graham Evans MP (Conservative, Weaver Vale)
Sheila Gilmore MP (Labour, Edinburgh East)
Glenda Jackson MP (Labour, Hampstead and Kilburn)
Kwasi Kwarteng MP (Conservative, Spelthorne)
Nigel Mills MP (Conservative, Amber Valley)
Anne Marie Morris MP (Conservative, Newton Abbot)
Teresa Pearce MP (Labour, Erith and Thamesmead)
Mr Michael Thornton MP (Liberal Democrat, Eastleigh)
Dame Angela Watkinson MP (Conservative, Hornchurch
and Upminster)
The following Members were also members of the Committee
during the Parliament:
Harriett Baldwin
MP (Conservative, West Worcestershire), Andrew Bingham
MP (Conservative, High Peak), Karen Bradley MP (Conservative,
Staffordshire Moorlands), Ms Karen Buck MP (Labour, Westminster
North), Mr Aidan Burley MP (Conservative, Cannock Chase),
Alex Cunningham MP (Labour, Stockton North), Margaret Curran
MP (Labour, Glasgow East), Jane Ellison MP (Conservative,
Battersea), Mike Freer MP (Conservative, Finchley and Golders
Green), Richard Graham MP (Conservative, Gloucester),
Kate Green MP (Labour, Stretford and Urmston), Sir Oliver
Heald MP (Conservative, North East Hertfordshire), Sajid
Javid MP (Conservative, Bromsgrove), Brandon Lewis MP (Conservative,
Great Yarmouth), Stephen Lloyd MP (Liberal Democrat, Eastbourne)
and Shabana Mahmood MP (Labour, Birmingham, Ladywood).
Powers
The committee is one of the departmental select committees,
the powers of which are set out in House of Commons Standing Orders,
principally in SO No 152. These are available on the Internet
via www.parliament.uk.
Publications
The Reports and evidence of the Committee are published
by The Stationery Office by Order of the House. All publications
of the Committee (including press notices) are on the Internet
at www.parliament.uk/workpencom. A list of Reports of the Committee
in the present Parliament is at the back of this volume.
Committee staff
The current staff of the Committee are Carol Oxborough
(Clerk), Katy Gray (Second Clerk), Gary Calder (Committee Media
Adviser), James Clarke (Committee
Specialist), Emma Sawyer (Senior Committee Assistant), Siobhan
Clifford (Web and Publications Assistant), and Nathan Hug (Committee
Support Assistant)
Contacts
All correspondence
should be addressed to the Clerk of the Work and Pensions Committee,
House of Commons, 7 Millbank, London SW1P 3JA. The telephone number
for general enquiries is 020 7219 2839; the Committee's email
address is workpencom@parliament.uk
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