Wednesday 19 November
2025, 09.15am, Committee Room 6
Work and Pensions Secretary will be questioned by the cross-party Work and
Pensions Committee on Wednesday on the work of the Department.
The session follows some big movements involving his Department
for Work and Pensions. Over recent days, it has said it
will review its decision not to pay compensation to 1950s-born
women affected by pension age increases, the launch of the
Milburn review and the publication of Charlie Mayfield's report,
which called on businesses to help tackle health-related
unemployment.
MPs on the Committee could examine the impact of planned cuts in
the health element of Universal Credit. They are also likely to
question the Secretary of State on DWP's progress in better
safeguarding vulnerable claimants, after it promised a new
approach following the Committee's Safeguarding Vulnerable
Claimants report, and on the revised terms of reference for
its review of the assessment process for Personal Independence
Payments (the Timms Review), which the Government has promised to
co-produce with disabled people.
This will be Mr McFadden's first appearance before the Committee
in his new role, and the first by any Secretary of State for Work
and Pensions since the skills brief, including apprenticeships,
moved from the Department for Education to the DWP.
Witnesses from 09:15am
Rt Hon. , Secretary of State for Work and Pensions;
Sir Peter Schofield, Permanent Secretary, Department for Work and
Pensions.
