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The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is a ministerial department of the Government of the United Kingdom. It is responsible for welfare , pensions and child maintenance policy. As the UK's biggest public service department it administers the State Pension and a range of working age, disability and ill health benefits to around 20 million ...
Department for Transport: The Rt Hon Heidi Alexander MP Secretar y of State for Transport: Dame Bernadette Kelly DCB Permanent Secretary [14] [15] Department for Work and Pensions: The Rt Hon Liz Kendall MP Secretary of State for Work and Pensions: Sir Peter Schofield KCB Permanent Secretary [16] [17] Department of Health and Social Care: The ...
The secretary of state for work and pensions, also referred to as the work and pensions secretary, is a secretary of state in the Government of the United Kingdom, with overall responsibility for the business of the Department for Work and Pensions. [3] The incumbent is a member of the Cabinet of the United Kingdom.
The Work and Pensions Secretary will set out Labour’s ambitions to change the DWP from a “department for welfare” to a “department for work” in a speech on Tuesday.
In 2012, Schofield was promoted again to be a director-general, heading the Neighbourhoods Group of Department of Communities and Local Government for four years. Then he transferred to the Department for Work and Pensions in 2016 as director-general for finance. In January 2018, he succeeded Sir Robert Devereux as the department's permanent ...
The Minister for Work and Pensions, or Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Work and Pensions in the House of Lords, [1] is a junior position in the Department for Work and Pensions in the British government. It is currently held by The Baroness Sherlock, who took the office on 9 July 2024. [2]
Someone wanting to claim ESA will need a medical certificate, i.e. a sick-note, signed by their GP to say that they are not fully fit for work. The new claimant must then contact the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), usually by phone, [8] who will log their claim and usually post them a questionnaire called an ESA50, where the claimant ...
Sir Robert John Devereux, KCB (/ ˈ d ɛ v ə ˌ r uː /; born 15 January 1957) is a retired senior British civil servant, who served as Permanent Secretary for the Department for Transport from 2007 to 2011, [1] and oversaw a new policy increasing the UK retirement age to 67 at the Department for Work and Pensions from 2011 until his retirement at 61 in January 2018.