Giving evidence to the House of Lords
Posted: Sat Feb 08, 2025 5:17 am
We’ve asked our #DataImpactFellows to share a day in their life.
David Kingman talks us through a memorable day in his career as a researcher: when he got to go and give oral evidence about his research to the House of Lords.
Why was I invited to give evidence?
In May 2018, the House of Lords Intergenerational thailand rcs data Fairness and Provision Select Committee launched a new public inquiry investigating the state of intergenerational inequality in the UK.
As their inquiry’s terms of reference aligned so closely with the work that we do at the Intergenerational Foundation (IF) researching inequalities between different generations, I was asked to produce a written submission to their initial Call for Evidence which summarised several of the pieces of research that I’ve done for IF over the past few years.
In both Houses of Parliament, select committee inquiries are usually a three-stage process:
Stage 1: the select committee announces its terms of reference and issues an initial call for written evidence.
Stage 2: over the course of a few weeks, stakeholders with relevant knowledge or expertise give oral evidence to the committee in person at evidence sessions.
Stage 3: members of the committee consider the information they’ve received and publish a report, usually including a series of policy recommendations.
David Kingman talks us through a memorable day in his career as a researcher: when he got to go and give oral evidence about his research to the House of Lords.
Why was I invited to give evidence?
In May 2018, the House of Lords Intergenerational thailand rcs data Fairness and Provision Select Committee launched a new public inquiry investigating the state of intergenerational inequality in the UK.
As their inquiry’s terms of reference aligned so closely with the work that we do at the Intergenerational Foundation (IF) researching inequalities between different generations, I was asked to produce a written submission to their initial Call for Evidence which summarised several of the pieces of research that I’ve done for IF over the past few years.
In both Houses of Parliament, select committee inquiries are usually a three-stage process:
Stage 1: the select committee announces its terms of reference and issues an initial call for written evidence.
Stage 2: over the course of a few weeks, stakeholders with relevant knowledge or expertise give oral evidence to the committee in person at evidence sessions.
Stage 3: members of the committee consider the information they’ve received and publish a report, usually including a series of policy recommendations.