Frank Field, Helena Morrissey and Bryn Davies to join House of Lords

Likely to join House of Lords later this year

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Former Work and Pensions Committee (WPC) chairman Frank Field, 30% Club founder Dame Helena Morrissey, and Union Pension Services director Bryn Davies have been nominated for life peerages.

Field chaired the WPC from 2015 to 2019, when he was defeated as a Birkenhead Social Justice candidate in the general election, having resigned from the Labour party. During his time on the WPC, he oversaw a number of pivotal inquiries into defined benefit (DB) scheme regulation, collective defined contribution schemes, cost transparency, and the powers of The Pensions Regulator (TPR). Meanwhile Morrissey (pictured) is head of personal investing at Legal & General Investment Management, having joined the asset manager in May 2017. She also founded the 30% Club, which campaigns for mor...

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