Ministerial role

Minister of State (Minister for Employment)

Organisations: Department for Work and Pensions
Current role holder: Jo Churchill MP

Responsibilities

Responsibilities include:

  • labour market
  • addressing inactivity to improve labour supply and economic growth
  • in work progression
  • skills
  • conditionality and sanctions
  • uprating and Benefit Cap
  • overall management and delivery of Universal Credit and legacy benefits
  • Jobcentre Plus
  • international
  • National Insurance Numbers (NINO)
  • Occupational Health and Statutory Sick Pay
  • Childcare
  • Poverty and cost of living

Current role holder

Jo Churchill MP

Jo Churchill was appointed Minister of State for the Department for Work and Pensions on 13 November 2023.

She was previously Vice Chamberlain of HM Household (Government Whip) between 7 September 2022 and 13 November 2023.

She was Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs between 17 September 2021 and 6 July 2022.

She was Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department of Health and Social Care from 26 July 2019 to 16 September 2021. Before that, she was Assistant Government Whip from 9 January 2018 to 26 July 2019.

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Previous holders of this role

  1. Guy Opperman MP

    2022 to 2023