Ministerial role

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Minister for Lords)

Organisations: Department for Work and Pensions

Responsibilities

Responsibilities include:

• spokesperson for DWP business in the House of Lords
• child maintenance and family test
• parental conflict
• Bereavement Benefits
• Maternity Benefits
• coordination of departmental legislation
• Social Security Advisory Committee (SSAC) relationship management
• departmental business, including oversight of:
  • departmental capability in commercial and digital affairs
  • commercial contracting policy
  • resourcing and estates
  • transparency and data-sharing issues
  • research and trialling
• Office for Nuclear Regulation

Previous holders of this role

1. Baroness Deborah Stedman-Scott OBE DL

   2022 to 2022