Urgent Question on the Social Mobility Commission: 4 December 2017
4 December 2017 (updated on 4 December 2017)
Liberal Democrat Leader Vince Cable asked an Urgent Question on the resignation of the board of the Social Mobility Commission, in the House of Commons on Monday 4 December 2017.
All four members of the board resigned over the previous weekend. In his resignation letter the former Chair of the Commission, Alan Milburn (pictured), stated that the Government "seems unable to devote the necessary energy and focus to the social mobility agenda".
- Watch Parliament TV: Urgent Question on Social Mobility Commission
- Read Commons Hansard: Urgent Question on Social Mobility Commission
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