Frank Field to head Work and Pensions Select Committee

Field - the Labour MP for Birkenhead who has long campaigned on pension issues - was elected in a secret, ballot of all members of parliament in a poll which closed last night. The remaining members of the committee will be nominated by the House of Commons over the coming weeks. Field replaces Dame Anne Begg as chairman after she lost her seat in the general election.  Field work in pensions includes establishing the Pensions Reform Group in 1999 to campaign on pensioner poverty issues. The group was responsible for putting forward the idea of a Universal Protected Pension, an ...