Sentences with phrase «pensions select committee»

An inquiry was launched by the Business, Innovation and Skills Committee and the Work and Pensions Select Committee into the collapse of BHS, which left a # 500m hole in its pension scheme.

Labour MP Frank Field, chairman of the Work and Pensions Select Committee, has told the BBC News Channel: «They daren't sack him because it'll look farcical if they do that.

He told the Work and Pensions select committee in July: «We are bound to the timescales set: between October 2013 and 2017, all of those who fall within the ambit of Universal Credit will be on Universal Credit.»

In a taste of a report out on Wednesday, the work and pensions select committee today released evidence by bank Santander, which said Carillion had been «notorious late payers».

Update: Since this article was first posted, Sheila Gilmore, MP for Edinburgh East (Lab), Member, Work & Pensions Select Committee, has said that the 900,000 figure in this article was misleading because it conflated two related but separate processes, and that of the 600,000 claimants who have migrated from Incapacity Benefit to ESA since April 2011 only 19,700 have dropped their claim.

Scope has commented on the Work and Pensions select committee's report on disability benefit claimants» experiences, which found a «pervasive lack of trust» and assesssment reports «riddled with errors».

Universal Credit was originally designed to increase work incentives, but the chairman of the work and pensions select committee, Frank Field, said these figures suggested the original purpose of the credit — fixing high marginal tax rates — is much harder to sell.

After I was first elected in 2001, I was put on the Work and Pensions Select Committee.

Scope has commented on the Work and Pensions select committee's report on disability benefit claimants» experiences, which found a «pervasive lack...

Sajid Javid is MP for Bromsgrove and a member of the Work and Pensions Select Committee who is a former senior Managing Director of Deutsche Bank:

Experts told the work and pensions select committee that universal credit's single monthly household payment made it easier for domestic abusers to seize and regulate family income and prevent partners from leaving the home.

Gauke announced the phone line change at a hearing by the work and pensions select committee on Wednesday morning.

Earlier this week the Department for Work and Pensions select committee published evidence that the reduced cap was leading to sharp rises in the number of people affected outside London, with increased workloads for Citizens Advice and homelessness charities as people struggled to cope with the sudden loss of income.

Debbie Abrahams is the Labour MP for Oldham East and Saddleworth and sits on the Work and Pensions Select Committee

From June 2011 to March 2015 Debbie was a member of the Work & Pensions Select Committee, and asked for an indipendent inquiry into the Government's punitive New Sanctions Regime.

The Labour MP and member of the work and pensions select committee accuses the Tory Party and right - wing press of a «simply untrue» narrative on welfare

That's why I've decided to call for the Work and Pensions select committee — of which I am a member — to hold an inquiry into this issue.

Mark Harper, the minister for disabled people, will appear in front of the work and pensions select committee on Wednesday today to defend the government's troubled record on implementation of the new disability benefit, the personal independence payment (PIP).

I was on the Work and Pensions Select Committee with Purnell during the Parliament before last, and he took a cool, dry - eyed, private sector - friendly view of how IB should be reformed.

The programme has been plagued by delays and the work and pensions select committee has launched an inquiry into the problems being reported by those who are already receiving it.

Following the 2015 general election, it was announced in June 2015 that he had been elected to the chairmanship of the Work and Pensions Select Committee.

Black, a member of the work and pensions select committee, is set to introduce a backbench bill aimed at curbing the benefits sanction regime.

Speaking on the Today programme, work and pension select committee chair Frank Field looked back to the early 19th century for a comparison.

Not exact matches

This resulted in the work and pensions secretary David Gauke agreeing to provide the papers to a select committee before Christmas.

He was a member of the Treasury Select Committee from 2004 until he was briefly, in 2005, a spokesman on work and pensions under the leadership of Michael Howard, but returned to the backbenches later in the year when David Cameron became Conservative leader.

Current Conservative officeholders who are members of the group include the Work and Pensions Secretary, Iain Duncan Smith; David Cameron's PPS, Desmond Swayne; Nick Clegg's Parliamentary Under - Secretary, Mark Harper; the Minister of State for Transport, Theresa Villiers; a Parliamentary Under - Secretary of State at the Ministry of Justice, Jonathan Djanogly; three government whips, Angela Watkinson, Mark Francois and Greg Hands; the Chairman of the Procedure Committee, Greg Knight; and the Chairman of the Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee, John Whittingdale, who was Mrs Thatcher's Political Secretary in the late 1980s.

There is little evidence that this has materialised so far, with many elected Chairs standing down after serving one parliament — cynics might say to boost their pension with the additional pay that comes with chairing a Select Committee.

A select committee report several months later backed Ann Abrahams» call, saying the government was guilty of «maladministration» in advising people to take money that would have gone into their second state pension and place it in the private sector.

The announcement comes in response to a select committee report this summer which said the government was guilty of «maladministration» in advising people to take money that would have gone to their second state pension and place it in the private sector.

Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer on Monday named eight senators to the select committees tasked with overhauling the budget and appropriations process as well as providing recommendations for restoring the solvency of multiemployer pension plans.

Reeves, a former shadow work and pensions secretary who sits on the Treasury select committee, told a fringe meeting: «There are bubbling tensions in this country that I just think could explode.»

Witnesses for the Joint Select Committee on Solvency of Multiemployer Pension Plans said demographics, failing industries and market returns led to the insolvency of multiemployer pensionPension Plans said demographics, failing industries and market returns led to the insolvency of multiemployer pensionpension plans.

Recent months may have led people to believe that buying a company with a defined pension scheme is about the most dangerous thing you could do, particularly if you want to avoid insolvency, or being called in front of a Parliamentary select committee, and being on the front pages of the papers for a couple of months.

There has been a dramatic increase in the areas that Parliamentary Select Committees investigate, ranging from tax for digitalised businesses, packaging waste, pension deficits (e.g. Carillion), working conditions (e.g. Sports Direct) and bankers bonuses.

This is not wildly controversial but Work and Pensions Secretary Esther McVey is adding new clauses banning unsolicited direct marketing related to pensions and to other financial products and services and the chair of her departmental select committee, Labour's Frank Field and the Lib Dem Stephen Lloyd are both offering amendments to toughen Pensions Secretary Esther McVey is adding new clauses banning unsolicited direct marketing related to pensions and to other financial products and services and the chair of her departmental select committee, Labour's Frank Field and the Lib Dem Stephen Lloyd are both offering amendments to toughen pensions and to other financial products and services and the chair of her departmental select committee, Labour's Frank Field and the Lib Dem Stephen Lloyd are both offering amendments to toughen them up.

There's a joint effort by the Work and Pensions and Business committees with Carillion's top brass, and, intriguingly, the Liaison Committee, the super committee of all the select committee chairs, has an evidence session with David Lidington the Cabinet Office minister coordinating the government's response to CCommittee, the super committee of all the select committee chairs, has an evidence session with David Lidington the Cabinet Office minister coordinating the government's response to Ccommittee of all the select committee chairs, has an evidence session with David Lidington the Cabinet Office minister coordinating the government's response to Ccommittee chairs, has an evidence session with David Lidington the Cabinet Office minister coordinating the government's response to Carillion.