It would be fascinating to sit in on the informal meeting now planned between the Scottish Parliament's Welfare Reform Committee and Westminster secretary of state for pensions Iain Duncan Smith, on March 27th.
It would be fascinating to sit in on the informal meeting now planned between the Scottish Parliament's Welfare Reform Committee and Westminster secretary of state for pensions Iain Duncan Smith, on March 27th.
Unfortunately the meeting will not take place in public, instead taking the same form as the similar meeting the committee held with the UK Government's Lord Freud in November.
Amid concerns about the far-reaching changes involved in the new Universal Credit benefit, anxiety over medical testing of claimants, the introduction of Personal Independence payments for disabled people and fears over the impact of the "bedroom tax", MSPs have repeatedly asked Iain Duncan Smith to show up and give evidence. In fact, an invitation has so far been issued four times.
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It would be fascinating to sit in on the informal meeting now planned between the Scottish Parliament's Welfare Reform Committee and Westminster secretary of state for pensions Iain Duncan Smith, on March 27th.
Unfortunately the meeting will not take place in public, instead taking the same form as the similar meeting the committee held with the UK Government's Lord Freud in November.
Amid concerns about the far-reaching changes involved in the new Universal Credit benefit, anxiety over medical testing of claimants, the introduction of Personal Independence payments for disabled people and fears over the impact of the "bedroom tax", MSPs have repeatedly asked Iain Duncan Smith to show up and give evidence. In fact, an invitation has so far been issued four times.
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