Economic Affairs Committee
Lords select committee, since 28 June 2001. Its page on the Parliament website.
The Economic Affairs Committee is a House of Lords permanent investigative committee charged with considering economic affairs.
Inquiries
- OBR: Fiscal risks and sustainability 2026 (10 July 2026)
- Governor of the Bank of England (13 May 2026)
- Chancellor of the Exchequer (13 May 2026)
- Fiscal devolution in England (24 April 2026)
- The UK’s fiscal framework (24 October 2025)
- Preparing for an Ageing Society (18 March 2025 to 4 September 2026)
- Economic inactivity: welfare and long-term sickness (24 October 2024 to 28 April 2025)
- Government’s debt target (2 October 2024)
- Chancellor of the Exchequer (11 March 2024 to 24 May 2024)
- Governor of the Bank of England (19 December 2023 to 24 May 2024)
- How sustainable is our national debt? (8 December 2023 to 25 April 2025)
- Growth and productivity: statistical methodology (13 April 2023 to 21 April 2023)
- Bank of England: how is independence working? (3 March 2023 to 2 May 2024)
- Governor of the Bank of England (11 October 2022 to 21 December 2022)
- Chancellor of the Exchequer (22 September 2022 to 18 April 2023)
- UK labour supply (28 July 2022 to 8 February 2024)
- UK energy supply and investment (10 February 2022 to 16 October 2023)
- Central Bank Digital Currencies (16 September 2021 to 2 February 2023)
- Loan charge follow-up (1 July 2021 to 13 September 2022)
- Quantitative Easing (27 January 2021 to 15 November 2021)
- Employment and COVID-19 (3 August 2020 to 25 January 2022)
- Chancellor of the Exchequer (12 May 2020 to 29 April 2021)
- Universal Credit: the wait for a first payment (9 March 2020 to 2 February 2022)
- The economics of Universal Credit (6 February 2020 to 24 March 2022)
- Governor of the Bank of England (6 February 2020 to 29 April 2021)
- Building more homes - follow up (29 January 2020 to 11 February 2020)
- Social care funding in England (13 September 2018 to 9 October 2018)
- Social care funding in England inquiry (3 September 2018 to 3 September 2018)
- The use of the retail price index (RPI) (7 June 2018 to 7 June 2018)
- Economics of higher, further and technical education inquiry (20 July 2017 to 20 July 2017)
- Brexit and the Labour Market (19 January 2017 to 19 January 2017)
- The Economics of UK Energy Policy Inquiry (29 June 2016 to 29 June 2016)
- Distributed ledger technologies (29 June 2016 to 19 July 2016)
- Governor of the Bank of England (4 March 2016 to 4 March 2016)
- Economics of the United Kingdom housing market inquiry (9 December 2015 to 9 December 2015)
- Chancellor of the Exchequer (9 December 2015 to 9 December 2015)
- Airports Commission (15 July 2015 to 9 December 2015)
- Banking standards and culture (14 July 2015 to 9 December 2015)
- Devolution of public finances in the UK inquiry (26 June 2015 to 9 December 2015)
- Bank ring-fencing (26 June 2015 to 9 December 2015)
- Economic Case for HS2 (11 July 2014 to 1 February 2015)
- The Economic Impact on UK Energy Policy of Shale Gas and Oil (23 July 2013 to 4 November 2014)
- Taxing corporations in a global economy: is a new approach needed? (27 March 2013 to 30 October 2013)
- Economic Implications for the United Kingdom of Scottish Independence (25 April 2012 to 26 June 2013)
- Hearings on the Final Report by the Independent Commission on Banking (10 October 2011 to 10 October 2011)
- Auditors: market concentration and their role (27 July 2010 to 14 March 2012)
Organisations it has heard from most
- Bank of England (17)
- HM Treasury (16)
- London School of Economics (LSE) (8)
- Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) (7)
- Resolution Foundation (7)
- Office for Budget Responsibility (6)
- Department for Work and Pensions (5)
- Oxford University (5)
- Financial Times (4)
- Institute for Government (4)
- King’s College London (4)
- National Institute of Economic and Social Research (NIESR) (4)
- British Retail Consortium (3)
- Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (3)
- HSBC (3)