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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• Revoke the bedroom tax
  Open from Friday 13th March 2020 to Sunday 13th September 2020
  159 signatures

• Reduce 5 week wait for first Universal Credit payment to 2 weeks.
  Open from Friday 13th March 2020 to Sunday 13th September 2020
  300 signatures

• Remove mandatory financial advice clause for Defined Benefit Pension transfers.
  Open from Friday 13th March 2020 to Sunday 13th September 2020
  14 signatures

• Exclude small private pensions when calculating Pension Credit entitlement
  Open from Friday 13th March 2020 to Sunday 13th September 2020
  37 signatures

• Reform child maintenance and benefit calculations to be fair and prevent poverty
  Open from Friday 13th March 2020 to Sunday 13th September 2020
  69 signatures

• Remove the minimum earnings threshold for Statutory Sick Pay
  Open from Wednesday 11th March 2020 to Friday 11th September 2020
  2,957 signatures

• Subject the Child Maintenance Service to review and ensure it's fit for purpose
  Open from Tuesday 10th March 2020 to Thursday 10th September 2020
  4,741 signatures

• Stop the migration of people to Universal Credit
  Open from Monday 9th March 2020 to Wednesday 9th September 2020
  79 signatures

• Parliament to protect housing benefit payments during Coronavirus.
  Open from Friday 6th March 2020 to Sunday 6th September 2020
  483 signatures

• Allow child benefit to be claimed on household income, not individual income.
  Open from Thursday 5th March 2020 to Saturday 5th September 2020
  302 signatures

• Pay Carers an allowance equivalent to a fulltime job at the National Living wage
  Open from Wednesday 4th March 2020 to Friday 4th September 2020
  20,610 signatures

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