Work and Pensions Select Committee

The Work and Pensions Select Committee is a select committee of the House of Commons in the Parliament of the United Kingdom. The remit of the Committee is to examine the expenditure, administration and policy of the Department for Work and Pensions and its associated public bodies.

Membership

As of September 2015, the Committee Chair is, Frank Field.^[1]

The full Membership of the committee is as follows:

	Party	Constituency
Debbie Abrahams MP	Labour	Oldham East and Saddleworth
Heidi Allen MP	Conservative	South Cambridgeshire
Mhairi Black MP	Scottish National Party	Paisley and Renfrewshire South
Karen Buck MP	Labour	Westminster North
John Glen MP	Conservative	Salisbury
Richard Graham MP	Conservative	Gloucester
Emma Lewell-Buck MP	Labour	South Shields
Craig Mackinlay MP	Conservative	South Thanet
Jeremy Quin	Conservative	Horsham
Craig Williams MP	Conservatve	Cardiff North

Source: Work and Pensions Committee^[2]

Changes

Occasionally, the House of Commons orders changes to be made in terms of membership of select committees, as proposed by the Committee of Selection. Such changes during the 2010-2015 Parliament are shown below.

Date		Constituency	→		Constituency	Source
2 November 2010	Karen Buck MP (Labour)	Westminster North	→	Alex Cunningham MP (Labour)	Stockton North	Hansard
	Margaret Curran MP (Labour)	Glasgow East		Glenda Jackson MP (Labour)	Hampstead and Kilburn
	Shabana Mahmood MP (Labour)	Birmingham Ladywood		Teresa Pearce MP (Labour)	Erith and Thamesmead
29 November 2010	Richard Graham MP (Conservative)	Gloucester	→	Andrew Bingham MP (Conservative)	High Peak	Hansard
29 November 2010	Sajid Javid MP (Conservative)	Bromsgrove	→	Brandon Lewis MP (Conservative)	Great Yarmouth	Hansard
27 June 2011	Alex Cunningham MP (Labour)	Stockton North	→	Debbie Abrahams MP (Labour)	Oldham East and Saddleworth	Hansard
25 October 2011	Kate Green MP (Labour)	Stretford and Urmston	→	Sheila Gilmore MP (Labour)	Edinburgh East	Hansard
29 October 2012	Harriett Baldwin MP (Conservative)	West Worcestershire	→	Aidan Burley MP (Conservative)	Cannock Chase	Hansard
	Andrew Bingham MP (Conservative)	High Peak		Jane Ellison MP (Conservative)	Battersea
	Karen Bradley MP (Conservative)	Staffordshire Moorlands		Graham Evans MP (Conservative)	Weaver Vale
	Oliver Heald MP (Conservative)	North East Hertfordshire		Nigel Mills MP (Conservative)	Amber Valley
	Brandon Lewis MP (Conservative)	Great Yarmouth		Anne Marie Morris MP (Conservative)	Newton Abbot
10 June 2013	Aidan Burley MP (Conservative)	Cannock Chase	→	Mike Freer MP (Conservative)	Finchley and Golders Green	Hansard

Welfare safety net inquiry

On the 18th of September, the Committee announced that it was beginning an enquiry into the 'welfare safety net'.^[3] The Committee's chair, in launching the enquiry, said:

"There is a great deal of concern that some of the least advantaged people are slipping through our safety net into a state of hunger. Our welfare safety net has developed over decades because there is a level below which we as a society do not believe anyone should fall, no matter where they live. We want to understand how local councils are adapting and coping with the changes in benefits and the extra responsibilities on them to meet genuine need and maintain that basic safety net."

References

↑ "Winning candidates for select committee Chairs announced". UK Parliament. 18 June 2015. Retrieved 19 June 2015.
↑ "Work and Pensions Committee - membership". UK Parliament. Retrieved 26 September 2015.
↑ "Welfare safety net inquiry launched". UK Parliament. Retrieved 21 September 2015.

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