Ministerial role

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Minister for Work and Pensions)

Organisations: Department for Work and Pensions

Responsibilities

The minister’s responsibilities include:

  • spokesperson for DWP business in the House of Lords
  • child maintenance and family test
  • parental conflict
  • legislation and statutory instruments strategy
  • Social Security Advisory Committee (SSAC) relationship management
  • Social Fund (Cold Weather Payments, Sure Start Maternity grants and Funeral Expenses Payment scheme)
  • bereavement benefits
  • maternity benefits
  • 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

    2019 to 2022

  2. Baroness Buscombe

    2017 to 2019

  3. The Rt Hon Lord Henley

    2016 to 2017