In the #WorkandPensionsCommittee hearing with #DWP officials, I questioned the Department's approach to Universal Credit cases where a member of the claimant household may be subjected to domestic abuse and violence.

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For those engaging in #workandpensionscommittee starting 22 April please raise the following: 🧵

#DisabilityBenefits fraud is 1.5% ESA & 0.0% PIP 👇

Aren't Labour arbitrarily reclassifying disability/sickness by changing assessment criteria to "justify" proposed cuts?

The #WorkandPensionsCommittee has today published its report on 'Youth employment, education and training'.

More than a million young people are not in employment, education, or training. We urge the Government to be bold, to reduce levels of NEETS, and tackle the drivers of future NEETs.

As Chair of the #WorkandPensionsCommittee, I have consistently argued that alongside efficiency, the system must treat claimants with dignity, respect and fairness; too many reporting the opposite.

- As Chair of the #WorkandPensionsCommittee I also hosted a special joint evidence session with the #EducationCommittee on deliverying the child poverty strategy.

The most recent session of the #WorkandPensionsCommittee was a special joint session with the #EducationCommittee; examining the delivery of the child poverty strategy.

As chair of the #WorkandPensionsCommittee I have been keen to highlight the impact that experiences of poverty in childhood have on someone's likelihood to become NEET, and recognising the need to similarly champion disabled people being given greater support into employment.

The #WorkandPensionsCommittee welcomed Pat McFadden, Work and Pensions Secretary, and Sir Peter Schofield, Permanent Secretary in #DWP, to discuss the work of the department.

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The #WorkandPensionsCommittee welcomed Pat McFadden, Work and Pensions Secretary, and Sir Peter Schofield, Permanent Secretary in #DWP, to discuss the work of the department.

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Last May 2025, the #WorkandPensionsCommittee published its report for the 'Safeguarding Vulnerable Claimants' inquiry. This was launched in response to serious concerns about #DWP's safeguarding practices in cases which involved the deaths of claimants.

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Last week saw the third session for the joint #WorkandPensionsCommittee and #EducationCommittee inquiry into 'Delivering the Child Poverty Strategy'.

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The #WorkandPensionsCommittee has highlighted the impact that experiences of poverty in childhood have on someone's likelihood to become NEET, but I wanted to ask what recognition is being given to the need to similarly champion disabled people being given greater support into employment.

Young people are not a “snowflake generation”, they face deep and systemic barriers to work, education and training.

The evidence heard by the #WorkandPensionsCommittee is clear: young people want to work, succeed and contribute, but too often the support they need simply isn’t there.

The #workandpensionscommittee commissioned analysis from @healthequitynorth.bsky.social to estimate the savings to DWP spending if 5% of unemployed or economically inactive people on #UniversalCredit received employment and health support, and moved into employment.

Today the #WorkandPensionsCommittee has released our final report on the Pathways to Work Green Paper, which focused on measures in the UC and PIP Bill, now the UC Bill.

The report welcomes the concessions that the Government made to the Bill, but there are still issues with these welfare reforms..