Work and Pensions Committee

Commons select committee, since 16 July 2001. Its page on the Parliament website.

The Work and Pensions Committee looks into the policies and spending of the Department for Work and Pensions, including benefits for people in and out of work, state pensions and how private pensions are regulated. It also scrutinises DWP’s public bodies and other regulators.

Inquiries

• Pensions adequacy – auto-enrolment contributions for low earners and their employers (16 September 2026)
• Local delivery of employment support (15 July 2026)
• Realising potential: Delivering the Child Poverty Strategy (23 June 2026)
• Safeguarding Vulnerable Claimants: One year on (2 June 2026)
• The work of Skills England (14 April 2026)
• Carer's benefits beyond the Sayce Review (24 February 2026)
• Disability and Ill-health in the Workplace (26 January 2026)
• DWP’s Annual Report and Accounts 2024-25 (20 January 2026)
• Youth employment, education and training (8 January 2026)
• Pre-appointment hearing: Chair of the Pensions Regulator (6 January 2026)
• Young people who are NEET and the transfer of Skills to DWP (17 November 2025)
• Transition to State Pension age (10 November 2025)
• Discretionary payments and member representation in defined benefit schemes (15 October 2025)
• Social Security Advisory Committee (18 September 2025)
• Child Maintenance Service (31 July 2025)
• Employment support for disabled people (16 July 2025)
• Local Housing Allowance and other benefit-related matters in the housing sector (9 June 2025)
• Pension Schemes Bill (7 May 2025)
• Child Poverty Taskforce (6 May 2025)
• Get Britain Working: Pathways to Work (23 April 2025 to 1 January 2026)
• Pensions Dashboard (19 February 2025)
• Get Britain Working: Reforming Jobcentres (23 January 2025 to 1 January 2026)
• Health and Safety Executive (22 January 2025)
• DWP’s Annual Report and Accounts 2023-24 (22 January 2025)
• Pensioner Poverty: challenges and mitigations (22 November 2024 to 1 January 2026)
• The work of the Department for Work and Pensions (31 October 2024)
• PHSO report on women's State Pension age (30 April 2024 to 23 May 2024)
• Back to Work Plan (25 March 2024 to 23 May 2024)
• Devolution of employment support (7 March 2024 to 23 May 2024)
• Carer’s Allowance (26 February 2024 to 23 May 2024)
• Disability employment (26 February 2024 to 23 May 2024)
• Fiduciary duties (12 January 2024 to 23 May 2024)
• DWP’s Annual Report and Accounts 2022-23 (12 December 2023 to 1 May 2024)
• Statutory Sick Pay (9 November 2023 to 23 May 2024)
• People and skills and the UK Shared Prosperity Fund (7 November 2023 to 1 May 2024)
• Norton pension schemes and the Fraud Compensation Fund (24 July 2023 to 24 May 2024)
• Safeguarding vulnerable claimants (21 July 2023 to 17 September 2025)
• Pensions dashboard (27 June 2023 to 31 October 2023)
• Effectiveness of sanctions (20 April 2023 to 31 October 2023)
• Cost of living support payments (3 April 2023 to 28 February 2024)
• Benefit levels in the UK (30 March 2023 to 23 May 2024)
• Household Support Fund (27 March 2023 to 31 October 2023)
• Defined benefit pension schemes (16 March 2023 to 5 May 2024)
• State Pension Age Review (2 February 2023 to 31 October 2023)
• DWP’s Annual Report and Accounts 2021–22 (4 January 2023 to 31 October 2023)
• The work of the Social Security Advisory Committee on separated parents and working age contributory benefits (3 November 2022 to 24 July 2023)
• Defined benefit pensions with Liability Driven Investments (24 October 2022 to 6 December 2023)
• Plan for Jobs and employment support (11 July 2022 to 31 October 2023)
• The work of the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (29 June 2022 to 23 May 2024)
• Appointment of the Pensions Ombudsman (20 June 2022 to 24 July 2023)
• Children in poverty: Child Maintenance Service (18 May 2022 to 31 October 2023)
• Universal Credit and Managed Migration (10 May 2022 to 31 October 2023)
• The cost of living (13 January 2022 to 17 April 2023)
• Protecting pension savers – five years on from the pension freedoms: Saving for later life (15 December 2021 to 15 February 2023)
• Universal Credit and childcare costs (25 November 2021 to 24 July 2023)
• Health assessments for benefits (27 September 2021 to 7 August 2023)
• DWP’s Annual Report and Accounts 2020–21 (24 September 2021 to 2 February 2022)
• The work of the Minister for Disabled People, Health and Work (31 August 2021 to 24 July 2023)
• Children in poverty: No recourse to public funds (28 July 2021 to 21 October 2022)
• Health and Safety Executive’s approach to asbestos management (9 July 2021 to 21 October 2022)

Organisations it has heard from most

• Department for Work and Pensions (54)
• Institute for Fiscal Studies (10)
• Resolution Foundation (9)
• Scope (9)
• Citizens Advice (7)
• Federation of Small Businesses (7)
• The Pensions Regulator (7)
• University of Liverpool (7)
• Age UK (6)
• Association of British Insurers (6)
• Child Poverty Action Group (6)
• Institute for Employment Studies (6)
• Joseph Rowntree Foundation (6)
• Loughborough University (6)
• Rethink Mental Illness (6)