Latest Articles By Simon Collyer

Iain Duncan Smith has resigned as work and pensions secretary, according to the BBC denouncing £4bn of planned cuts to disability benefits as "indefensible". He complains of pressure to "salami slice" welfare, saying the latest cuts were a...

House of Commons Work and Pensions Select Committee Committee launches new inquiry on early drawing of state pension In its report on Communicating state pension age changes, published on 15 March 2016, the Committee called on the Government to explo...

Responding to today’s Budget, Child Poverty Action Group Chief Executive Alison Garnham said: “This Budget puts the next generation last and set to be the poorest generation for decades.  The Chancellor ignored both the 3.7m chi...

Following today’s Budget, Britain’s biggest older people’s organisation, the National Pensioners Convention (NPC) has issued the following statement:   Dot Gibson, NPC general secretary said: “The Chancellor referred to h...

With new statistics released today show that Scotland is again ahead of the UK on employment, with record low rates of inactivity in the workplace.     Labour Market figures, produced by the Office of National Statistics show overall emplo...

Iain Duncan Smith: Provide FREE 0800 access to all DWP departments, agencies and public bodies. People calling the Department of Work and Pensions to deal with their benefits or tax credits should NEVER be charged at premium rates. Many people w...

Good news on EU unemployment …  The jobless numbers are steadily falling. In the fourth quarter of last year, employment increased by 1.2 percent in the eurozone and by 1 percent in the EU28 compared to the same period in 2014, accor...

Wrong and outdated views towards LGBT people endanger their fundamental rights In some EU Member States, doctors still view homosexuality as a disease and transsexuality as a mental disorder, according to findings from a new report by the EU Agency f...

Budget Speech  Wednesday 16 March 2016 Meeting starts at 11.30am Commons Chamber Following the Prime Ministers Question Time, you can see here the Budget Statement from George Osbourne. With the Euro depreciating due to more quantitative ea...

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...