Select Committee · Economic Affairs Committee

Economic inactivity: welfare and long-term sickness

Status: Closed Opened: 24 Oct 2024 Closed: 28 Apr 2025

Oral evidence sessions

6 sessions
Date Witnesses
3 Dec 2024 Alison McGovern MP · Department for Work and Pensions, Shaun Butcher · Department for Work and Pensions, Tom Younger · Department for Work and Pensions View ↗
26 Nov 2024 Huw Pill · Bank of England View ↗
19 Nov 2024 Professor Ben Geiger · King’s College London, Professor Jonathan Portes · King’s College London View ↗
12 Nov 2024 Dr Sean Phillips · Policy Exchange, Edward Davies · Centre for Social Justice, Louise Murphy · Resolution Foundation View ↗
5 Nov 2024 Professor David Miles CBE · Office for Budget Responsibility, Richard Hughes · Office for Budget Responsibility, Tom Josephs · Office for Budget Responsibility View ↗
29 Oct 2024 Eduin Latimer · Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS), Tom Waters · Institute for Fiscal Studies View ↗

Correspondence

5 letters
DateDirectionTitle
28 Apr 2025 To cttee Letter from Alison McGovern MP, Minister for Employment at DWP, to the Chair of…
20 Jan 2025 To cttee Letter from the Chair of the Economic Affairs Committee to the Rt Hon Liz Kenda…
7 Jan 2025 To cttee Letter from Alison McGovern MP, Minister for Employment at DWP, to the Chair of…
16 Dec 2024 To cttee Letter from the Rt Hon Liz Kendall MP, Secretary of State for Work & Pensions,…
19 Nov 2024 To cttee Letter from Richard Hughes, Chair of the Office for Budget Responsibility, to t…