Work and Pensions Select Committee Wednesday 2 December, 9.30am

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Work and Pensions Select Committee

EVIDENCE SESSION: Local welfare safety net

9.30am, Wednesday 2 December, Wilson Room, Portcullis House

The Work and Pensions Committee is holding an inquiry into the “local welfare safety net”—local authority-run discretionary welfare assistance, housing payment and Council Tax support schemes.  

Purpose of this session

This is the second of two evidence sessions in the inquiry. The Committee will hear evidence from local authorities on best practice in the administration of locally-run discretionary welfare. It will then question Ministers on the Government’s position on the range of issues raised during the inquiry, including the adequacy and effectiveness of the local welfare safety net as a whole.

Witnesses:

At 9.30 am

• Jill Farrar, Senior Team Manager, Blackpool Council
• Councillor Paul McGlone, Deputy Leader and Cabinet Member for Finance and Investment, Lambeth Council
• Councillor John Fuller, Vice Chairman, Resources Panel, Local Government Association and Leader South Norfolk District Council

At 10.15am

• Marcus Jones MP. Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State (Minister for Local Government)
• Matthew Style, Director of Local Government Finance, Department for Communities and Local Government
• Baroness Ros Altman CBE, Minister of State for Pensions
• Pete Searle, Director of Working Age, Department for Work and Pensions

Watch it live here at the ABC website.