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select committee

June 28, 2019

Is the Jeremy Kyle Show being held accountable to a higher standard than the government?

This week Damian Collins, the Conservative Chair of the Culture Media and Sport Select Committee, said the makers of the Jeremy Kyle Show were irresponsible.
August 8, 2018

Fake news, gaslighting and the truth that can be known

Three or four years ago, we still had some trust in politicians.
February 9, 2018

Universal Credit assessment reveals 'biggest challenges still to come'

The Work and Pensions Committee says DWP has "produced no evidence to back up the key, central economic assumption of the biggest reform to our welfare system in 50 years."
January 24, 2018

DWP Committee questions ministers on Universal Credit

The Work and Pensions Committee will question Ministers and civil servants on Universal Credit today.
November 8, 2017

Universal Credit appears to be 'driven by blind faith'

The Work and Pensions Select Committee has published two further letters to the DWP, pressing it on the lack of published data or a current business case for Universal Credit, its flagship welfare reform.
October 28, 2017

Universal Credit 'mangling poorer people's lives'
- Frank Field says evidence from Halton Housing Trust is "damning on the DWP maladministration which is mangling poorer people's lives".
October 26, 2017

Select Committee issues 'urgent and unanimous' report on Universal Credit wait

Work and Pensions Committee says 'no proper justification has been offered' for minimum six week wait linked to problem debt, foodbank use and rent arrears.
July 2, 2015

Churches and charities call on government to act on benefit sanctions report

A group of Churches and charities has called for the Government to heed the Work and Pansions Committee's report on benefit sanctions and act on its recommendations.
January 18, 2007

Nuclear weapons argument is flawed, Christian campaigner tells MPs

The government's argument for keeping an "independent nuclear deterrent" is flawed, a veteran Christian campaigner has told MPs.