Department for Work and Pensions

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) 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 claimants and customers. DWP is a ministerial department, supported by 13 agencies and public bodies.

Website

https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/department-for-work-pensions

Ministers

• The Rt Hon Mel Stride MP
  Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
• Guy Opperman MP
  Minister of State (Minister for Employment)
• Tom Pursglove MP
  Minister of State (Minister for Disabled People, Health and Work)
• Mims Davies MP
  Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Minister for Social Mobility, Youth and Progression)
• Laura Trott MBE MP
  Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Minister for Pensions)
• Viscount Younger of Leckie
  Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Minister for Lords)

Petitions linked to this department

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• Change rules so parents with 50/50 shared care don’t pay child maintenance
  Opened on Tuesday 19th November 2024
  135 signatures so far

• Stop Means Testing Pensioners and increase the State Pension
  Opened on Monday 11th November 2024
  1,463 signatures so far

• Calculate child maintenance based on net rather than gross pay
  Opened on Friday 8th November 2024
  66 signatures so far

• Hold a Public Inquiry into the state pension age change for 1950s women
  Opened on Friday 8th November 2024
  3,264 signatures so far

• Do not reduce the Right to Buy discount
  Opened on Friday 8th November 2024
  1,771 signatures so far

• Set rules about when a service/venue can describe itself as accessible
  Opened on Friday 8th November 2024
  287 signatures so far

• Stop deducting carer's allowance from income based welfare
  Opened on Friday 8th November 2024
  120 signatures so far

• Don't put an extra duty on vape products
  Opened on Wednesday 6th November 2024
  437 signatures so far

• Reverse changes to Winter Fuel Payment
  Opened on Tuesday 5th November 2024
  23,134 signatures so far

• Require upkeep and development of demolition sites
  Open from Thursday 16th May 2024 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  17 signatures

• Remove Permitted Development Rights for all additional street infrastructure
  Open from Monday 13th May 2024 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  1,207 signatures

• Ensure every Jobcentre has a private room for interviews by the end of 2024
  Open from Friday 10th May 2024 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  135 signatures

• Require explicit consent for selling and sharing, for money, any personal data
  Open from Thursday 9th May 2024 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  64 signatures

• End PIP reassessments for people with life-long conditions
  Open from Wednesday 8th May 2024 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  2,426 signatures

• Update Universal Credit payments for all claimants from date new rates apply
  Open from Wednesday 8th May 2024 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  195 signatures

• Do not remove Benefits from those deemed fit to work
  Open from Tuesday 7th May 2024 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  61 signatures

• Make it a criminal offence for lenders to retain money when fraud is proven
  Open from Tuesday 7th May 2024 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  26 signatures

• Set a cap for liquidator fees
  Open from Tuesday 7th May 2024 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  32 signatures

• Disregard all military pension schemes for tax and other benefit entitlements
  Open from Friday 3rd May 2024 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  79 signatures

• Review the CMS's approach to tracing non-resident parents
  Open from Thursday 2nd May 2024 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  79 signatures

• Give all children a pension fund with £100 at birth
  Open from Thursday 2nd May 2024 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  76 signatures

• Expand eligibility criteria for legal aid to cover all cases for single parents
  Open from Thursday 2nd May 2024 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  14 signatures

• Make Shared Ownership and Social Housing eligible for the Boiler Upgrade Scheme
  Open from Thursday 2nd May 2024 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  18 signatures

• Reform maternity and paternity pay to extend and increase support
  Open from Tuesday 30th April 2024 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  2,550 signatures

• Publish list of any planned Post Office closures
  Open from Monday 29th April 2024 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  39 signatures

• Stop National Insurance payments after reaching 35 years of contributions
  Open from Friday 26th April 2024 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  39 signatures

• Require council tax reductions for those affected by antisocial behaviour
  Open from Friday 26th April 2024 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  12 signatures

• Remove the need for employers to apply for work permits for staff under 16
  Open from Thursday 25th April 2024 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  44 signatures

• Remove benefit reassessments for people with degenerative physical conditions
  Open from Thursday 25th April 2024 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  2,766 signatures

• Ban all private funding for political parties and fund through taxation
  Open from Thursday 25th April 2024 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  1,127 signatures

• Stop deducting Carer's Allowance from income-based welfare
  Open from Tuesday 23rd April 2024 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  380 signatures

• Give resident freeholders a Right to Manage communal areas on new build estates
  Open from Tuesday 23rd April 2024 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  37 signatures

• Hold a Public Inquiry into state pension age changes for women
  Open from Monday 22nd April 2024 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  11,791 signatures

• Pay full housing costs for benefit claimants in private rented accommodation
  Open from Monday 22nd April 2024 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  20 signatures

• Give all state pensioners the new State Pension
  Open from Friday 19th April 2024 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  3,449 signatures

• Disregard partner's income for Universal Credit and tax-free childcare
  Open from Thursday 18th April 2024 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  52 signatures

• Provide interest free finance payment plans for mobility equipment
  Open from Wednesday 17th April 2024 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  119 signatures

• Create a new short-term benefit for workers who aren't entitled to Sick Pay
  Open from Tuesday 16th April 2024 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  101 signatures

• Do not class the State Pension as a Benefit
  Open from Tuesday 16th April 2024 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  69 signatures

• Require HSE to disregard time passed when deciding whether to investigate
  Open from Monday 15th April 2024 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  9 signatures

• Review how the CMS verifies information and manages enforcement and penalties
  Open from Monday 15th April 2024 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  82 signatures

• Make it a legal requirement to list an expected salary on job advertisements
  Open from Friday 12th April 2024 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  38 signatures

• Abolish leasehold ownership in its entirety
  Open from Wednesday 10th April 2024 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  131 signatures

• Impose new restrictions on political donations and beneficiaries of public funds
  Open from Monday 8th April 2024 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  462 signatures

• Review and reform VAT for registered mental health service providers
  Open from Monday 8th April 2024 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  29 signatures

• Fund free sanitary products for homeless people
  Open from Monday 8th April 2024 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  34 signatures

• Review the Equality Act 2010
  Open from Monday 8th April 2024 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  36 signatures

• Require pension providers to allow early access for retirement due to ill health
  Open from Thursday 4th April 2024 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  67 signatures

• Stop differentiating between under/over 25s for Universal Credit
  Open from Thursday 4th April 2024 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  31 signatures

• Raise statutory maternity pay to £250 a week & raise UC during maternity leave
  Open from Thursday 28th March 2024 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  23 signatures

• Consider child maintenance payments as earnings for calculating benefits
  Open from Friday 22nd March 2024 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  30 signatures

• Provide funding to build 90,000 new social homes
  Open from Thursday 21st March 2024 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  226 signatures

• Exempt a home owned by people living in tied accommodation from UC calculations
  Open from Wednesday 20th March 2024 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  15 signatures

• Give people a right to have online/phone/video Universal Credit appointments
  Open from Tuesday 19th March 2024 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  27 signatures

• Give 500,000 UK overseas State Pensioners with frozen pensions parity
  Open from Friday 15th March 2024 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  31 signatures

• Introduce: ‘The Sex Workers Discrimination Act'
  Open from Thursday 14th March 2024 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  55 signatures

• Require all landlords/agencies to accept tenants claiming benefits
  Open from Monday 11th March 2024 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  26 signatures

• Change Universal Credit Housing Element Rules when rent is set per week
  Open from Thursday 7th March 2024 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  43 signatures

• Require employers to grant one day off a month for sporting activity
  Open from Wednesday 6th March 2024 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  11 signatures

• Offer low- or no-interest Government loans to all UK taxpayers
  Open from Wednesday 6th March 2024 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  20 signatures

• Increase staffing to handle Universal Credit claims and queries
  Open from Monday 4th March 2024 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  791 signatures

• Extend Sure Start Maternity Grant and Healthy Start to all working mothers
  Open from Monday 4th March 2024 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  33 signatures

• Increase alcohol tax and use revenue for improving mental health services
  Open from Monday 4th March 2024 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  21 signatures

• Introduce a national minimum wage for jobs existing within anti-social hours
  Open from Monday 4th March 2024 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  86 signatures

• Abolish taxes on the home: Inheritance Tax, Stamp Duty Tax & Capital Gains Tax
  Open from Friday 1st March 2024 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  49 signatures

• Raise the Tax-Free Personal Allowance to £16,000 in the next tax year
  Open from Thursday 29th February 2024 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  188 signatures

• New benefit for parents in a single or low income household until child is 5
  Open from Thursday 29th February 2024 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  15 signatures

• Create an optional tax contribution system
  Open from Wednesday 28th February 2024 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  11 signatures

• Extend the Household Support Fund
  Open from Wednesday 28th February 2024 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  52 signatures

• Increase statutory maternity leave and pay to 2 years at 75% pay
  Open from Wednesday 28th February 2024 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  35 signatures

• Require landlords and letting agents to offer video viewings for disabled people
  Open from Tuesday 27th February 2024 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  18 signatures

• No stamp duty for first and second-time buyers
  Open from Tuesday 27th February 2024 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  16 signatures

• Extend the Financial Services Compensation Scheme to all UK pension schemes
  Open from Monday 26th February 2024 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  55 signatures

• Give our homeless Veterans the same accommodation provision as asylum seekers
  Open from Monday 19th February 2024 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  551 signatures

• Require landlords to offer a single person discount on rent
  Open from Friday 16th February 2024 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  41 signatures

• Provide financial support for full-time workers with high-interest mortgages
  Open from Friday 16th February 2024 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  24 signatures

• Do not increase the State Pension age above 68
  Open from Wednesday 14th February 2024 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  763 signatures

• Enable community-led protective covenants for local historical & heritage sites
  Open from Tuesday 13th February 2024 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  289 signatures

• Change Universal Credit rules for farmers
  Open from Tuesday 13th February 2024 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  1,147 signatures

• Ensure Government funding for police exceeds council tax police precept
  Open from Tuesday 13th February 2024 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  84 signatures

• Provide all pensioners born before April 1951 with the new State Pension
  Open from Thursday 8th February 2024 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  14,484 signatures

• Base child maintenance calculation on net pay
  Open from Tuesday 6th February 2024 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  60 signatures

• Prevent public bodies from conducting private prosecutions
  Open from Friday 2nd February 2024 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  45 signatures

• Abolish the Bedroom Tax
  Open from Thursday 1st February 2024 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  90 signatures

• Add a mobility element to Attendance Allowance
  Open from Thursday 1st February 2024 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  15,243 signatures

• Make it illegal to take photos of children on private property without consent
  Open from Wednesday 31st January 2024 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  16 signatures

• Review legislation governing the admissibility of computer evidence
  Open from Wednesday 31st January 2024 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  132 signatures

• Make all workplace bullying illegal
  Open from Tuesday 30th January 2024 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  151 signatures

• Don't increase financial thresholds for exemption from financial promotion rules
  Open from Monday 29th January 2024 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  19 signatures

• Allow people to retain and make new claims for Child Tax Credits
  Open from Friday 26th January 2024 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  18 signatures

• Remove joint and several liability in tenancy agreements in proven cases of DV
  Open from Friday 26th January 2024 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  65 signatures

• Fund sustainable, affordable housing for first-time buyers and families
  Open from Tuesday 23rd January 2024 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  32 signatures

• Increase UK VAT threshold to match inflation - it has been £85k since 2017
  Open from Thursday 18th January 2024 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  48 signatures

• Do not let the Government access information on pensioners' bank accounts.
  Open from Wednesday 17th January 2024 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  15,276 signatures

• Reduce the State Pension age to 63
  Open from Wednesday 17th January 2024 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  203 signatures

• Ban councils putting council tax up higher than the 5% annual threshold
  Open from Tuesday 16th January 2024 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  102 signatures

• Offer the State Pension to all at 60, increase to equal 48hrs at the Living Wage
  Open from Monday 15th January 2024 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  64,082 signatures

• Don't treat tax rebates as income for Universal Credit
  Open from Monday 15th January 2024 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  36 signatures

• Increase Carer’s Allowance to equal 35 hours at 50% of the living wage.
  Open from Friday 12th January 2024 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  14,116 signatures

• Make all pensions exempt from income tax
  Open from Thursday 11th January 2024 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  443 signatures

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