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The total annual budget of the department in 2011–12 was £151.6 billion, representing approximately 28% of total UK Government spending. [40] The department spends a far greater share of national wealth than any other department in Britain, by a wide margin. The department spends an average of £348.9 million with suppliers per month. [41]
The Government of the United Kingdom is divided into departments that each have responsibility, according to the government, for putting government policy into practice. [1] There are currently 24 ministerial departments, 20 non-ministerial departments, and 422 agencies and other public bodies, for a total of 465 departments. [2]
The Benefits Agency (BA) was an executive agency of the British Department of Social Security (subsequently the Department for Work and Pensions), set up in 1991 to "create and deliver an active modern social security service, which encourages and enables independence and aims to pay the right money at the right time".
This category contains articles about the ministries of the Government of the United Kingdom, which are known as departments. For articles about other bodies controlled by the UK government see: Category:Executive agencies of the United Kingdom government; Category:Public bodies and task forces of the United Kingdom government
In 1966, the Supplementary Benefits Commission (part of the National Assistance Board) was merged with the Ministry of Pensions and National Insurance to form the new Ministry of Social Security, as part of the Ministry of Social Security Act 1966. [1]
Labour Exchange Reading, Berkshire, UK during second world war. The Ministry of Labour was a British government department established by the New Ministries and Secretaries Act 1916. It later morphed into the Department of Employment. [1] Most of its functions are now performed by the Department for Work and Pensions.
This is a list of largest United Kingdom employers. There are four main kinds of employers, public sector bodies; public listed companies (plc) such as those on the FTSE 100; private companies (ltd), partnerships (often LLP) or other traders; charitable sector organisations
It was created on 8 June 2001 by the merger of the employment division of the Department for Education and Employment and the Department of Social Security. [5] The Ministry of Pensions was created in 1916 to handle the payment of war pensions to former members of the Armed Forces and their dependants.