Live Debate DWP Select Committee Institutional Fairness

EVIDENCE SESSION: Intergenerational fairness

 The Committee holds its next evidence on the question of “intergenerational fairness” tomorrow morning. Check out this infographic short that encapsulates some of the issues the Committee is looking at: https://youtu.be/2ip2pbSZYLQ  

The Committee is looking at:

• What ‘intergenerational fairness’ and the concept of a ‘social contract’ between generations mean in practice
• The role of demography and policy in driving disparities between generations
• Whether inequality between generations is a more pressing issue than inequality within generations, and how it should be addressed
• The future of the state pension triple-lock and the long-term outlook for pensions and pensioner benefits

Wednesday 16 March 2016, the Wilson Room, Portcullis House

At 9.30am,

Sally West, Income and Poverty Strategy Adviser, Age UK

Dan Wilson Craw, Policy and Communication Manager, Generation Rent

Ashley Seager, Co-founder and advisory board member, Intergenerational Foundation

Neil Duncan-Jordan, National Officer, National Pensioners' Convention

At 10.15am

Ben Franklin, Head of Economics of an Ageing Society, International Longevity Centre UK

Rachael Saunders, Age at Work Director, Business in the Community