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
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Baroness Deborah Stedman-Scott OBE DL
2022 to 2022