Conservative backbencher Robert Halfon MP will today ask MPs to support a 10-minute rule bill calling on parliament to give the commission extra powers.
The government created the commission in 2010 as an independent body to promote social mobility in England and advise ministers on matters such as child poverty. However, the commission is currently in stasis after all four commissioners resigned last December in protest over a lack of government focus on social mobility.
Following the resignations, the education committee published a report that criticised the government for allowing the commission's membership to dwindle to nothing and proposed new legislation to give the commission additional powers.
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