Ministerial role
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Minister for Welfare Delivery)
Organisations:
Department for Work and Pensions
Current role holder:
Will Quince MP
Responsibilities
The minister’s responsibilities include:
- overall management and delivery of Universal Credit
- support for disadvantaged groups in Universal Credit including care leavers, prison leavers, survivors of domestic abuse, people with drug or alcohol dependency, rough sleepers and those who are facing homelessness
- housing policy and Housing Benefit delivery
- ‘Help to Claim’ service
- poverty
- benefit uprating
- military covenant
- fraud, error and debt
Current role holder
Will Quince MP
Will Quince was appointed as a Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department for Work and Pensions on 4 April 2019.