Select committee: House of Commons

Work and Pensions Committee

Scrutinises Department for Work and Pensions 209 reports 849 conclusions & recs 60 reports with response document linked 149 without response document linked

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Committee work 137 matching items · closed

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All work · 137 Has published report · 78 Has conclusions or recs · 28 Findings, no response link · 3 Evidence or correspondence only · 53 Open, no report yet · 0

All (161) Open (24) Closed (137)

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Inquiry	Type	Status	Opened	Reports	Items	Response
Get Britain Working: Pathways to Work Inquiry	Report findings	Closed	23 Apr 2025	2	23	Response document linked
Get Britain Working: Reforming Jobcentres Inquiry	Report findings	Closed	23 Jan 2025	4	41	Response document linked
Pensioner Poverty: challenges and mitigations Inquiry	Report findings	Closed	22 Nov 2024	2	43	Response document linked
PHSO report on women's State Pension age Non-inquiry session	Evidence/session	Closed	30 Apr 2024	0	0	None
Back to Work Plan Non-inquiry session	Evidence/session	Closed	25 Mar 2024	0	0	None
Devolution of employment support Inquiry	Evidence/session	Closed	7 Mar 2024	0	0	None
Disability employment Inquiry	Evidence/session	Closed	26 Feb 2024	0	0	None
Carer’s Allowance Non-inquiry session	Evidence/session	Closed	26 Feb 2024	0	0	None
Fiduciary duties Non-inquiry session	Evidence/session	Closed	12 Jan 2024	0	0	None
DWP’s Annual Report and Accounts 2022-23 Non-inquiry session	Evidence/session	Closed	12 Dec 2023	0	0	None
Statutory Sick Pay Inquiry	Report findings	Closed	9 Nov 2023	2	10	Response document linked
People and skills and the UK Shared Prosperity Fund Non-inquiry session	Evidence/session	Closed	7 Nov 2023	0	0	None
Norton pension schemes and the Fraud Compensation Fund Inquiry	Evidence/session	Closed	24 Jul 2023	0	0	None
Safeguarding vulnerable claimants Inquiry	Report findings	Closed	21 Jul 2023	2	40	Response document linked
Pensions dashboard Non-inquiry session	Evidence/session	Closed	27 Jun 2023	0	0	None
Effectiveness of sanctions Non-inquiry session	Evidence/session	Closed	20 Apr 2023	0	0	None
Cost of living support payments Inquiry	Report findings	Closed	3 Apr 2023	2	15	Response document linked
Benefit levels in the UK Inquiry	Report findings	Closed	30 Mar 2023	3	19	Response document linked
Household Support Fund Non-inquiry session	Evidence/session	Closed	27 Mar 2023	0	0	None
Defined benefit pension schemes Inquiry	Report findings	Closed	16 Mar 2023	2	23	Response document linked
State Pension Age Review Non-inquiry session	Evidence/session	Closed	2 Feb 2023	0	0	None
DWP’s Annual Report and Accounts 2021–22 Non-inquiry session	Evidence/session	Closed	4 Jan 2023	0	0	None
The work of the Social Security Advisory Committee on separated parents and working age contributory benefits Non-inquiry session	Evidence/session	Closed	3 Nov 2022	0	0	None
Defined benefit pensions with Liability Driven Investments Inquiry	Report findings	Closed	24 Oct 2022	2	17	Response document linked
Plan for Jobs and employment support Inquiry	Report findings	Closed	11 Jul 2022	2	38	Response document linked
The work of the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions Non-inquiry session	Evidence/session	Closed	29 Jun 2022	0	0	None
Appointment of the Pensions Ombudsman Pre-appointment hearing	Report findings	Closed	20 Jun 2022	1	2	No response document linked
Children in poverty: Child Maintenance Service Inquiry	Report findings	Closed	18 May 2022	2	31	Response document linked
Universal Credit and Managed Migration Non-inquiry session	Evidence/session	Closed	10 May 2022	0	0	None
The cost of living Inquiry	Report findings	Closed	13 Jan 2022	2	11	Response document linked
Protecting pension savers – five years on from the pension freedoms: Saving for later life Inquiry	Report findings	Closed	15 Dec 2021	2	22	Response document linked
Universal Credit and childcare costs Inquiry	Report findings	Closed	25 Nov 2021	2	14	Response document linked
Health assessments for benefits Inquiry	Report findings	Closed	27 Sep 2021	2	29	Response document linked
DWP’s Annual Report and Accounts 2020–21 Non-inquiry session	Evidence/session	Closed	24 Sep 2021	0	0	None
The work of the Minister for Disabled People, Health and Work Non-inquiry session	Evidence/session	Closed	31 Aug 2021	0	0	None
Children in poverty: No recourse to public funds Inquiry	Report findings	Closed	28 Jul 2021	2	22	Response document linked
Health and Safety Executive’s approach to asbestos management Inquiry	Report findings	Closed	9 Jul 2021	2	27	Response document linked
Local Housing Allowance and Housing Supply Non-inquiry session	Evidence/session	Closed	13 May 2021	0	0	None
Pension stewardship and COP26 Inquiry	Report findings	Closed	29 Apr 2021	2	20	Response document linked
Appointment of the Chair of the Pensions Regulator Pre-appointment hearing	Report findings	Closed	9 Apr 2021	1	5	No response document linked
Protecting pension savers – five years on from the Pension Freedoms: Accessing pension savings Inquiry	Report findings	Closed	23 Feb 2021	2	33	Response document linked
Children in poverty: Measurement and targets Inquiry	Report findings	Closed	12 Jan 2021	2	37	Response document linked
Disability employment gap Inquiry	Report findings	Closed	3 Nov 2020	2	38	Response document linked
Measurements of poverty Non-inquiry session	Evidence/session	Closed	29 Sep 2020	0	0	None
DWP’s Annual Report and Accounts 2019-20 Non-inquiry session	Evidence/session	Closed	3 Sep 2020	0	0	None
Appointment of the Chair of the Social Security Advisory Committee Pre-appointment hearing	Report findings	Closed	24 Aug 2020	1	3	No response document linked
Protecting pension savers – five years on from the pension freedoms: Pension scams Inquiry	Report findings	Closed	28 Jul 2020	2	37	Response document linked
Safeguarding vulnerable people: how DWP learns lessons from serious cases Non-inquiry session	Evidence/session	Closed	2 Jul 2020	0	0	None
Work of the Pensions Ombudsman Non-inquiry session	Evidence/session	Closed	29 Jun 2020	0	0	None
DWP’s preparations for changes in the world of work Inquiry	Report findings	Closed	14 May 2020	2	25	Response document linked

Reports without a committee inquiry 40

Parliament published these reports with no official committee inquiry attached, so they do not appear in the inquiry list.

27th Report - Universal Credit: natural migration 23 July 2019 · HC 1884
26th Report - Universal Credit: tests for managed migration 1 May 2019 · HC 2091
19th Special Report - Benefit sanctions: Government Response to the Committee’s Nineteenth Report of Session 2017-19 11 February 2019
20th Report - Universal Credit: managed migration 22 November 2018 · HC 1762
19th Report - Benefit Sanctions 6 November 2018 · HC 955
15th Report - The Motability Scheme (First Joint Report of the Work and Pensions and Treasury Committees) 21 May 2018 · HC 847
Government Response to the Communities and Local Government and Work and Pensions Committees Joint Report: Future of supported housing 1 November 2017
1st Joint Report of the Communities and Local Government and Work and Pensions Committees - Future of supported housing 1 May 2017 · HC 867
4th report - Progress with automatic enrolment and pension reforms 10 March 2015 · HC 668
5th Report - Universal Credit implementation: monitoring DWP's performance in 2012-13 9 April 2014 · HC 1209
3rd Report - Monitoring the performance of the Department for Work and Pensions in 2012-13 (Report, together with formal minutes) 18 March 2014 · HC 1153
1st Report - Can the Work Programme work for all user groups? - Volume I (Volume I: Report, together with formal minutes, oral and written evidence) 21 May 2013 · HC 162
1st Report - Can the Work Programme work for all user groups? - Volume II (Volume II: additional written evidence) 21 May 2013
5th Report - The Single-tier State Pension: Part 1 of the draft Pensions Bill - Volume I (Volume I: Report, together with formal minutes, oral and written evidence) 4 April 2013 · HC 1000
5th Report - The Single-tier State Pension: Part 1 of the draft Pensions Bill - Volume II (Additional (Unprinted) Written Evidence) 4 April 2013
4th Report - Lifting the restrictions on NEST 11 February 2013 · HC 950
1st Report - Appointment of the Chair of the Social Security Advisory Committee 22 June 2012 · HC 297-I
7th Report - Government support towards the additional living costs of working-age disabled people - Volume I (Report, together with formal minutes, oral and written evidence) 19 February 2012 · HC 1493
7th Report - Government support towards the additional living costs of working-age disabled people - Volume II (Additional written evidence) 19 February 2012
8th Special Report - The Government's proposed child maintenance reforms: Government Response to the Committee's Fifth Report of Session 2010–12 22 December 2011 · HC 1727
Department for Work and Pensions Annual Report and Accounts 2010-11 - oral and written evidence (Evidence given on 9 November 2011 by Rt Hon Iain Duncan Smith MP and Mr Robert Devereux) 22 December 2011 · HC 1628
7th Special Report - The role of incapacity benefit reassessment in helping claimants into employment: Government Response to the Committee's Sixth Report of Session 2010–12 11 November 2011 · HC 1641
6th Report - The Role Of Incapacity Benefit Reassessment In Helping Claimants Into Employment - Volume I (Volume I: Report, together with formal minutes, oral and written evidence) 26 July 2011 · HC 1015-I
6th Report - The Role Of Incapacity Benefit Reassessment In Helping Claimants Into Employment - Volume II (Volume II Additional written evidence) 26 July 2011
6th Special Report - Work Programme: providers and contracting arrangements: Government Response to the Committee's Fourth Report of Session 2010-12 18 July 2011 · HC 1438
5th Report - The Government's Proposed Child Maintenance Reforms - Volume II (Oral and Written Evidence) 4 July 2011 · HC 1047-II
5th Report - The Government's Proposed Child Maintenance Reforms - Volume I (Report together with formal minutes) 1 July 2011 · HC 1047-I
4th Report - Work Programme: providers and contracting arrangements - Volume I 8 May 2011 · HC 718-I
4th Report - Work Programme: providers and contracting arrangements - Volume II - additional written evidence 8 May 2011
The Government’s pension reforms - oral evidence - 9 March 2011 (Evidence given by Steve Webb MP, Minister of State for Pensions, Evelyn Arnold, Head of State Pension Division, and David Haigh, Deputy Director, Workplace Pension Reform Division, Department for Work and Pensions) 26 April 2011
3rd Report - Appointment of the Chair of the Social Security Advisory Committee 1 April 2011 · HC 904-I
5th Special Report - Youth Unemployment and the Future Jobs Fund: Government Response to the Committee's First Report of Session 2010-11 15 March 2011 · HC 844
4th Special Report - Changes to Housing Benefit announced in the June 2010 Budget: Government Response to the Committee's Second Report of Session 2010–11 10 March 2011 · HC 845
2nd report - Changes to Housing Benefit announced in the June 2010 Budget 22 December 2010 · HC 469
2nd report - Changes to Housing Benefit announced in the June 2010 Budget - additional written evidence 22 December 2010
1st report - Youth Unemployment and the Future Jobs Fund 21 December 2010 · HC 472
1st report - Youth Unemployment and the Future Jobs Fund - additional written evidence 21 December 2010 · HC 472-ii
Third Special Report - Local Housing Allowance: Government Response to the Committee's Fifth Report of Session 2009-10 21 October 2010 · HC 509
2nd Special Report - Management and Administration of Contracted Employment Programmes (Government Response to the Committee's Fourth Report of Session 2009-10) 21 October 2010 · HC 508
1st Special Report - The Child Maintenance and Enforcement Commission (...and the Child Support Agency's Operational Improvement Plan: Government Response to the Committee's Third Report of Session 2009-10) 21 October 2010 · HC 507