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Governance and best practice in workplace pensions
Inquiry announced 27 February 2012
This inquiry will build on the Committee’s recent inquiry into automatic enrolment in assessing what further steps might be needed to ensure that the public has confidence in workplace pensions and to encourage retirement saving.
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Universal Credit
Inquiry announced 17 July 2012
This inquiry will review the progress being made towards implementation of Universal Credit and will also examine aspects of the proposed entitlement conditions and the future operation of the benefit.
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Work Programme: the experience of different user groups
Inquiry announced 26 October 2012
This inquiry will consider how well the Work Programme, the Government’s contracted employment programme, is supporting different groups of long-term unemployed people, particularly those who may be considered to be hardest to help.
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Draft Pensions Bill
Inquiry announced 22 January 2013
The Government has asked the Work and Pensions Select Committee to carry out the pre-legislative scrutiny of the part of the draft Pensions Bill relating to the establishment of a single-tier State Pension. In this inquiry, the Committee will undertake a
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Personal Independence Payment (PIP): follow-up
Inquiry announced 18 February 2013
The Committee held a one-off oral evidence session with the DWP Minister for Disabled People, Esther McVey MP. The Committee followed up a number of concerns, set out in its February 2012 report, about the Government’s plans to introduce PIP (the replacem