Ministerial role

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Minister for Welfare Delivery)

Organisations: Department for Work and Pensions

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, including Support for Mortgage Interest and supported accommodation
  • ‘Help to Claim’ service
  • poverty and cost of living
  • fraud, error and debt
  • benefit uprating
  • EU Exit oversight
  • Jobseeker’s Allowance and income support
  • benefit cap
  • Budgeting Loans

Previous holders of this role

  1. David Rutley

    2021 to 2022

  2. Will Quince

    2019 to 2021