Select Committee · Work and Pensions Committee

Measurements of poverty

Status: Closed Opened: 29 Sep 2020 Closed: 2 Feb 2022
Inquiry scopeThe Work and Pensions Committee examined the Social Metric Commission’s 2020 report – Measuring Poverty 2020 - in detail, looking at the Commission’s work on poverty and coronavirus, and hearing more about DWP’s progress towards implementing the Commission’s proposed approach to poverty measurement.

Oral evidence sessions

1 session

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Date Session and witnesses Source
14 Oct 2020
Work and Pensions Committee meeting
Matthew Oakley · Social Metrics Commission, The Baroness Stroud · Social Metrics Commission
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Who gave evidence

2 witnesses

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WitnessOrganisationSessions
Matthew Oakley · Secretariat Social Metrics Commission 1
The Baroness Stroud · Chair of the Social Metrics Commission, and Chief Executive Officer of the Legatum Institute Social Metrics Commission 1