Frank Field, Baron Field of Birkenhead

Field chaired the Work and Pensions Committee from 2015 to 2019, and its joint inquiry with the business committee into the collapse of BHS produced a 2016 report calling Sir Philip Green 'the unacceptable face of capitalism'. Green later paid £363 million into the pension scheme. The committee's work on Carillion and on Universal Credit's five-week wait for a first payment pushed changes to advance payments. Field brought decades of poverty campaigning to the role.