A government committee chaired by the Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith has been set up to consider issues around poverty, equality and social justice.
Former children’s spokesman for the Liberal Democrats, David Laws, now Chief Secretary to the Treasury will be vice chair of the social justice committee.
Children’s minister Sarah Teather MP is also on the committee, along with junior equalities minister Lynne Featherstone.
Iain Duncan Smith is currently chair of the Centre for Social Justice, a think tank set up in 2004 to tackle issues around poverty.
