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The following is an extract from the Civil Service Year Book which provides
contact information for the DWP ministers and their officials.
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Chapter 3 - Ministers, Departments and Executive Agencies
Department for Work and Pensions
John Hutton: Secretary of State for Work and Pensions has overall responsibility for all work and pensions matters as well as public expenditure issues.
James Purnell: Minister of State for Pensions Reform; Pensions Overview, Pensions Legislation, Older People including Third Age Service, Age Discrimination, Stakeholder Pensions, Private Pensions, Pension Credit/MIG, The Pension Service, Winter Fuel Payments and over 80's Payments, Basic Pension, SERPS/State Second Pension, Regulatory Reform.
Jim Murphy: Minister of State for Employment and Welfare Reform; Labour market and the economy, Labour market statistics (LMS), Welfare Reform strategy, Cabinet Committee on Welfare Reform - WR, Incapacity Benefit reform, Statutory Sick Pay (SSP), Media and presentation overview, Spending Review, Budget and PBR, Links to Occupation Health agenda, The New Deal and Building on New Deal (BoND), Lone parents, childcare and partners, Poverty, child poverty and social exclusion, Cabinet Committee on Children's Policy - DA(CP), Ethnic minority employment (including the EME Task Force), Migrants, refugees and asylum seekers, Cabinet Committee on Asylum and Migration - AM, Industrial Injuries Disability Benefit (IIDB), Homelessness, housing and employment, Tax credits, Cabinet Committee on European Policy - EP, Cabinet Committee on the European Union - JMC(E) , Jobcentre Plus - strategy and performance, Jobcentre Plus - business case review, Jobcentre Plus - contracting strategy/employment programmes, Jobcentre Plus - modernisation, Jobcentre Plus - contestability, Jobcentre Plus - efficiency, relocation of staff and office closures, Cabinet Committee on Efficiency and Relocation - MISC30, Employers (including National Employment Panel), Skills, Young people (including 16 and 17 year olds), Disadvantaged areas and regional issues, Cabinet Committee on London - MISC26, Rapid Response service/redundancies, Parliamentary Questions (Oral and Written), Ex-offenders and drug-misusers, Older workers.
Beverley Hughes: Minister of State for Children, Young People and Families (based in the Department for Education and Skills); Modern Foreign Languages strategy; Ethnic Minority Attainment and Asylum Seekers' Children's Education, PSHE and Citizenship, Extended Schools, Family Learning and Parents' Policy, Sure Start Policy, Children's Centres and Integration and Local Delivery in SSEYC, School Governance Recruitment in SSEYC, National Standards and Quality and Regulation in SSEYC, SEN and Inclusion in Early Years.
James Plaskitt: Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Commons); Housing Benefit, Council Tax Benefit, Bereavement Benefits, Income Support (Working Age), Jobseekers Allowance, Students, International and European affairs, Better Buildings, Debt Management, The Euro, Social Fund, Fraud & Error, Methods of Payment, European Social Fund, Benefit Simplification, Adult Basic Skills, Pensions (Support), Habitual Residency Test, Ninos, Social Security Advisory Committee (SSAC), Lead in the Commons on CSA.
Lord Hunt of Kings Heath: Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Lords); All pensions issues in the Lords; Civil Partnerships, Diversity issues for DWP, Maternity and Paternity pay, Poverty and Social Exclusion, DWP lead on New Deal for Communities, Child Support, Appeals and Adjudication, Asylum, Human Rights, Committee of the Nations and Regions, Rural Renewal Committee, Freedom of Information and Data protection, Devolution, Green Issues for DWP, Lead in the Lords on Pensions, Disability, Work.
Anne McGuire: Minister for Disabled People; Disability Legislation; Disability Rights Commission/Single Equality Body, Remploy/Workstep/Supported Employment, Access To Work, Incapacity Benefit, Statutory Sick Pay, Independent Living Funds, Vaccine Damage Payments, Carers Issues/Long Term Care, Carers Allowance, DLA/AA, Motability/SVF, DWP Input to Veterans Task Force, Civil Partnerships, Lead in the Commons on Human Rights, Freedom of Information, Appeals/Adjudication, Maternity/Paternity Pay, Asylum and Migration.
Richmond House,
79 Whitehall,
LONDON
SW1A 2NS
Telephone: 020 7238 3000
Enquiries: 020 7712 2171 (Public Enquiry Office)
Web: http://www.dwp.gov.uk
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