Corporate report

Accountability System Statement for Work and Pensions

This document sets out the present accountability system for the Department for Work and Pensions.

From:
Department for Work and Pensions
Published
1 July 2013
Last updated
20 August 2014 — See all updates
This was published under the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

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The document on this page covers the financial year 2014 to 2015. Read the DWP accountability statement for 2015 to 2016.

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Accountability System Statement for Work and Pensions

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Accounting officers in government departments are accountable to Parliament for the proper stewardship of the resources allocated to the department. Details of the requirements to ensure regularity, propriety and value for money are set out in HM Treasury’s guidance Managing Public Money.

Sir Bob Kerslake, the Permanent Secretary of the Department for Communities and Local Government, proposed in his report Accountability: Adapting to decentralisation, published in September 2011, that in future, departmental accounting officers should publish accountability system statements. These should explain how they achieve accountability for the funds they distribute to local bodies. This allows accounting officers to demonstrate that, as the government moves to decentralise power to local communities, the appropriate accountability mechanisms are in place.

This document sets out the present accountability system for Work and Pensions. It has been agreed by Robert Devereux as accounting officer and Permanent Secretary of the Department for Work and Pensions.

Past versions of this document can be found on The National Archives website

Published 1 July 2013
Last updated 20 August 2014 + show all updates

  1. Replaced the Accountability System Statement for Work and Pensions PDF with revised version.

  2. First published.