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paul treloar
kate green
jim murphy mp
robin williamson
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Paul is the Director of Policy and Services, responsible for leading the policy and lobbying work at Disability Alliance. Previously, he worked as policy officer at Lasa and as a welfare rights worker for Child Poverty Action Group. He currently chairs the Social Security Consortium and is a leading member of the Disability Benefits Consortium.
His work has covered a range of policy issues including the current welfare reforms, particularly in relation to incapacity benefit reform. He has also highlighted the need for independent advice provision across London, child poverty issues and Legal Services Commission contracting.
Kate has been Chief Executive of Child Poverty Action Group since July 2004. From July 2000, she was Director of One Parent Families, and previously she worked for the Home Office and before that for Barclays Bank. Kate is a member of the London Child Poverty Commission which reports to the Mayor of London and the Association of London Government, a member of the National Employment Panel which advises Ministers on labour market policies and programmes and the New Deals, a member of the advisory board of the Resolution Foundation which is concerned with access to financial services, a trustee of the National Family and Parenting Institute, a trustee of End Child Poverty, and a trustee of the Institute for Fiscal Studies. She has been a Magistrate in the City of London since 1993.
Kate received an OBE in the 2005 New Year’s Honours list.
Child Poverty Action Group: is a national charity working for the eradication of child and family poverty in the UK. CPAG believes that everyone should enjoy a childhood free from poverty and discrimination. CPAG seeks to initiate or change national policies on financial support for families by parliamentary lobbying and networking with other organisations. CPAG also provides an expert information and advocacy service on all aspects of social security and tax credits legislation.
Minister of state, Department for Work and Pensions (2006 - present).
May 2005: Re-elected Member of Parliament for East Renfrewshire. Promoted to the post of Parliamentary Secretary at the Cabinet Office. Responsibilities include egovernment, better regulation and public service modernisation
May 2006: Promoted to Minister of State for Employment and Welfare Reform. Responsibilities include Employment, Welfare Reform and Child Poverty
Robin Williamson is a Solicitor and a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Taxation. He is Technical Director of the Low Incomes Tax Reform Group (LITRG) of the Chartered Institute of Taxation, in which role he manages the technical output of the Group and engages in various consultations with Government. He also lectures to both tax and welfare rights audiences, broadcasts on radio and television, and writes frequently in the professional press. Previously Robin was a senior technical editor with CCH where his main role was as editor-in-chief of Tax Statutes and Statutory Instruments, the ‘Red and Green’ tax legislation handbooks, from 1989 to 2002.
The Low Incomes Tax Reform Group (LITRG) was set up in the Spring of 1998 by the Chartered Institute of Taxation to give a voice to the unrepresented in the tax system. It aims to help those on low incomes to cope with the tax system, by challenging the Government to simplify the rules and by encouraging the Revenue to make its processes and services more friendly to the needs of people on low incomes. Its reports and recommendations are available at www.litrg.org.uk, along with practical help for those on low incomes.
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