Department for Work and Pensions
The Department is responsible for delivering support and advice through a modern network of services to people of working age, employers, pensioners, families and children and disabled people. Its key aims are to help its customers become financially independent and to help reduce child poverty.
Contact information
- Address: Caxton House, Tothill Street, London SW1H 2NS
- Website: www.dwp.gov.uk/ [External website]
- Telephone: 020 7340 4000
- Generic Email format: firstname.lastname@dwp.gsi.gov.uk
Parliamentary Branch
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Ministers
Secretary of State for Work and Pensions: The Rt Hon Yvette Cooper MP
Yvette Cooper
Leads on:
Private Office to The Rt Hon Yvette Cooper MP
Minister of State (Employment and Welfare Reform) and Minister for the South West: The Rt Hon Jim Knight MP
Jim Knight
Leads on:
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Labour market and the economy
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Labour market statistics
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Welfare Reform
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Jobcentre Plus
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Employment programmes, including the future of the New Deal
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European Social Fund
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Ethnic minority employment (Chair of EME taskforce)
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Migrants, refugees and asylum seekers
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Adult Disadvantage (including ex-offenders)
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City Strategy
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Employers
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Skills
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Disadvantaged areas and regional issuesTax Credits (where DWP has an interest)
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Habitual Residency Test
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National Insurance Numbers (NINOs)
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Service Transformation and Change Programme
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Departmental IT and data security
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Directgov
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Digital Inclusion
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Departmental Management Issues
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Minister for the South West
Private Office to The Rt Hon Jim Knight MP
Minister of State (Pensions and the Ageing Society): Angela Eagle MP
Angela Eagle
Leads on:
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Pensions Reform
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Personal Accounts
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The Pension, Disability and Carers Service
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State Pensions provision including Pension credit
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Ageing society
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Extending working lives
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Private Pensions and pensions protection
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Pensions Regulator
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Pensions Protection Fund
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Financial Assistance Fund
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Deregulation
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Departmental lead on International Relations and European issue
Private Office to Angela Eagle MP
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State: Lord McKenzie of Luton
Lord McKenzie
Leads on:
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Lead on all DWP issues in the Lords
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Health and Safety at work
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The Health and Safety Executive
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Health, Work and Well-being
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Sickness absence and vocational rehabilitation
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Statutory Sick Pay
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Industrial Injuries Disablement Benefit
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Bereavement Benefit
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Asbestos compensation
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Employers Liability Compulsory Insurance
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Better Regulation
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Research and statistics
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Freedom of Information within DWP
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DWP human rights issues
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Service leavers
Also Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State Department for Communities and Local Government
Private Office to Lord McKenzie of Luton
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State (Minister for Disabled People) and Minister for the South East Jonathan Shaw MP
Jonathan Shaw
Leads on:
- Office for Disability Issues
- Disability Legislation
- Equality and Human Rights Commission
- Equality Bill
- Disability Living Allowance / Attendance Allowance
- Motability
- Carer’s Allowance / Carer’s Benefit
- Access to Work
- Workstep
- Remploy & Supported Employment
- Independent Living Fund
- Incapacity Benefit / Employment Support Allowance implementation
- Lead responsibility for disability and carers issues in PDCS.
- Vaccine Damage Payments
- Lead in the Commons on PSL policy areas
- Minister for the South East
Private Office to Jonathan Shaw MP
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State: Helen Goodman MP
Helen Goodman
Leads on:
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Housing and Council Tax Benefit policy and delivery
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Fraud and Error
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Debt Management
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Income Support
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Jobseeker’s Allowance
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Benefit Simplification
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Financial Inclusion
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Social Fund
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Methods of Payment Reform
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Post Office Card Account
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Compensation Recovery Unit
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Social Security Advisory Committee
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Child Poverty and young people
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Child Maintenance / Support
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Childcare
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Support on Welfare Reform in Parliament
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Lone Parents and partners
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Maternity Pay
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Sustainable development in DWP
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Correspondence and PQ lead
Private Office to Helen Goodman MP
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Private Offices
Private Office to The Rt Hon Yvette Cooper MP
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Telephone: 020 7340 4000
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Fax: 020 3267 5091
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Private Office to The Rt Hon Jim Knight MP
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Telephone: 020 7340 4000
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Fax: 020 3267 5091
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Private Office to Angela Eagle MP
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Telephone: 020 7340 4000
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Fax: 020 3267 5091
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Private Office to Lord McKenzie of Luton
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Telephone: 020 7340 4000
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Fax: 020 3267 5096
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Private Office to Jonathan Shaw MP
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Telephone: 020 7340 4000
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Fax: 020 3267 5096
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Private Office to Helen Goodman MP
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Telephone: 020 7340 4000
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Fax: 020 3267 5096
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Executive Agencies
Child Support Agency
The Child Support Agency is an Executive Agency of the Department for Work and Pensions. The CSA exists to deliver a professional, efficient and sensitive child support service, which plays its part in ensuring that children, whose parents do not live together, are financially supported and kept out of poverty. Its role is to make a speedy and accurate assessment of child maintenance, ensure that this is paid on time, and help clients as they go through this activity.
Jobcentre Plus
Jobcentre Plus is an Executive Agency of the Department for Work and Pensions. DWP's overall goal for people of working age is to promote work for those who can and support for those who cannot. Fundamental to this goal is the creation of Jobcentre Plus, which has brought together the former Employment Service and those parts of the Benefits Agency which support people of working age, into a single integrated business with a clear focus on work. The first Pathfinder offices of the new organisation were opened in October 2001. There are now 272 offices, covering a quarter of Great Britain, providing a new integrated service to our customers. Jobcentre Plus' aim is to help more people into work and employers to fill their vacancies, and to provide people of working age with the help and support they are entitled to. As a result Jobcentre Plus will contribute to the Government's aim of tackling poverty, reducing worklessness, promoting growth and opportunity, and modernising Government..
Pension, Disability and Carers Service
The Disability and Carers Service and the Pensions Service merged with effect from 1 April 2008. The Pension Service is a dedicated service for current and future pensioners. It provides state financial support to over 11 million pensioners delivered at a national and local level and in partnership with other organisations. It also helps people to plan and provide for retirement. The Disability and Carers Service supports disabled people and their carers, whether or not they work. It is responsible for delivering Attendance Allowance, Disability Living Allowance and Carer's Allowance.
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