Ministerial role

Minister of State (Minister for Employment)

Organisations: Department for Work and Pensions

Current role holder: Alison McGovern MP

Responsibilities

• Labour Market – including employer engagement 

• Jobcentre Plus/National Jobs and Careers Service reform 

• poverty 

• addressing economic inactivity 

• locally led employment support 

• Skills and In Work Progression 

• Occupational Health and Statutory Sick Pay 

• Childcare and Parental Employment 

• Youth Guarantee 

• Disability employment

• Conditionality/sanctions

Current role holder

Alison McGovern MP

Alison McGovern was appointed Minister of State at the Department for Work and Pensions on 8 July 2024. She was elected as the MP for Birkenhead in July 2024.

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Previous holders of this role

1. Jo Churchill

   2023 to 2024

2. Guy Opperman

   2022 to 2023

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• Government launches "Good Food Cycle" to transform Britain's food system 
  • 14 July 2025
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• Making Work Pay: Strengthening Statutory Sick Pay
  • 04 March 2025
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• Government growth service to save small business time and money
  • 07 December 2024
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• Keynote at the Employment Related Services Association Annual Conference
  • 06 December 2024
  • Speech
• Learning from the past to deliver the future: Getting Britain’s labour market and economy working again
  • 17 September 2024
  • Speech
• Landmark childcare rollout on track
  • 18 April 2024
  • Press release
• Hardworking Brits backed by new employment protections
  • 05 April 2024
  • Press release
• Childcare recruitment campaign launched
  • 02 February 2024
  • Press release
• Dual claims: discrepancy in the application of escalating sanctions where dual claims are involved
  • 27 April 2023
  • Correspondence
• Major funding package to level up Blyth
  • 23 February 2023
  • Press release

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