Latest Articles By Simon Collyer

Following the BREXIT vote British businesses are already taking a major hit according to business information provider Markit. Factory and services activity in July revealed the sharpest decline in output since the height of the global financial cris...

The Work and Pensions Committee launches an inquiry into employment opportunities for young people Inquiry: Employment opportunities for young people Work and Pensions Committee Aim of the inquiry The Committee considers whether current provision for...

Jeremy Corbyn  born May 26, 1949 (age 67)attracting 183,000 paid supporters in just 48 hours. This must be some sort of record in political history.  Jeremy Bernard Corbyn'  has been the Member of Parliament for Islington North si...

Western European countries complain their workers are subject to unfair competition from low-salaried eastern European competitors — an average hour of work costs an employer €40 in Denmark but only €3.80 in Bulgaria, according to Eur...

According to the BBC full roll-out of the welfare reform is now forecast in March 2022, an extension of a year - and 11 years after it was first announced. Universal Credit, which replaces six current benefits with a single payment, is being rolled a...

The new team at the Department for Work and Pensions is: Secretary of State – Rt Hon Damian Green MP -Minister of State for Employment – Damian Hinds MP -Minister of State for Disabled People, Work and Health – Penny Mordaunt MP -Mi...

Millennials facing ‘generational pay penalty’ as their earnings fall £8,000 behind during their 20s Fresh evidence of the growing intergenerational inequality that new Prime Minister has warned of Britain’s longstanding promis...

The SNP has warned that Theresa May’s sweeping proclamations on fighting for social justice in her recent remarks both before and after becoming Prime Minister should be taken with a large pinch of salt, with her voting record since entering go...

The National Audit Office has today published its investigation into misuse of the Flexible Support Fund in Plaistow jobcentre. In November 2015, the Rt Hon. Stephen Timms MP contacted the NAO with concerns about misuse of the Fund in the East London...

The Comptroller and Auditor General, Amyas Morse, has qualified his audit opinion on the regularity of the 2015-16 accounts of the Department for Work and Pensions. This is owing to the unacceptably high level of fraud and error in benefit expenditur...