DWP Work & Pensions Committee Live

EVIDENCE SESSION: Benefit delivery

 9.30am, Wednesday 4 November, Wilson Room, Portcullis House

The Work and Pensions Committee is holding an inquiry into the timeliness and accuracy of benefit delivery by the DWP. Potential problems that can arise when benefits are delayed or underpaid include people resorting to food banks for emergency food rations.

This is the second oral evidence session for the inquiry, with organisations who offer benefits advice and support to claimants and the Minister for Welfare Reform. The committee will question the first panel on problems associated with benefit delivery and the impact this can have on claimants. It will then raise the problems involved with benefit delivery with the Minister and discuss potential solutions.

• Inquiry: Benefit delivery
• Work and Pensions Committee
• Watch it here online at the ABC

Witnesses:

At 9.30 am

•          Lorna Gledhill, Regional Asylum Activism Coordinator and member of West Yorkshire Destitute Asylum Network
•          Fabio Apollonio, Project Manager, Policy, research and advocacy, British Red Cross,
•          Phil Reynolds, Disability Benefits Consortium,

At 10.15am

•          Sue McCarron, Wirral Citizens Advice Bureau
•          Lord Freud, Minister for Welfare Reform
•          Andrew Rhodes, Benefits Services Director, Department for Work and Pensions

FURTHER INFORMATION:

 Committee Membership is as follows: 

Frank Field (Labour, Birkenhead) (Chair); Debbie Abrahams (Labour, Oldham East and Saddleworth); Heidi Allen (Conservative, South Cambridgeshire); Mhairi Black (Scottish National Party, Paisley and Renfrewshire South); Ms Karen Buck, (Labour, Westminster North); John Glen (Conservative, Salisbury); Richard Graham (Conservative, Gloucester); Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck (Labour, South Shields); Craig Mackinlay (Conservative, South Thanet); Jeremy Quin (Conservative, Horsham); Craig Williams (Conservative, Cardiff North).