Former Work and Pensions Committee chair Lord Frank Field is dying, peer reveals

Field (pictured) 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. Field, 79-years-old, also defended steelworkers while chair of the WPC. In January 2019 he suggested those caught up in the British Steel pensions debacle were "sold short" on the compensation offe...