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The [[Department for Work and Pensions|'''Department for Work and Pensions''']] is the largest department in the United Kingdom government in terms of staff numbers and spending. Responsible for welfare and pension policy, it was established in June 2001 through the merger of the [[Department of Social Security (United Kingdom)|Department for Social Security]] with employment-related functions from the [[Department for Education and Employment]].
Since its establishment, the DWP has been headed by a [[Permanent secretary|Permanent Under-Secretary of State]] (commonly referred to as the Permanent Secretary) who chairs the Executive Team. The Executive Team's membership has consisted of Group Directors or Directors-General with responsibility for strategy, operations, policy, delivery or professional and corporate services. The roles and titles belonging to Group Directors and Directors-General have undergone significant changes since 2001; the latest change in management structure occurred in April 2019.
The heads of several government agencies have also been members of the Executive Team. These have included the chief executives of the Benefits Agency (later the Pensions Service) and the Disability and Carers Service (established in 2005), which were merged to form the Pension, Disability and Carers Service in 2008; the Child Support Agency which existed until 2008; and the Employment Service, which became the Jobcentre Plus in 2002 and existed until 2011.
== Permanent Under-Secretaries of State ==
* June 2001-May 2002: [[Rachel Lomax]]<ref name=":4">''Department for Work and Pensions Resource Accounts 2001-2002'' (House of Commons Papers, 2003, HC 146), p. 8.</ref><ref name=":5">''Department for Work and Pensions Resource Accounts 2002-03'' (House of Commons Papers, 2004, HC 83), p. 10.</ref>
* June 2002-November 2005: Sir [[Richard Mottram]], KCB<ref name=":5" /><ref name=":8">''Resource Accounts 2005-06'' (House of Commons Papers, 2006, HC 1710), p. 22.</ref>
*November 2005-January 2011: [[Leigh Lewis]]<ref name=":8" /><ref name=":11">''[https://ift.tt/2OV8Y4h Annual Report and Accounts 2010-11]'' (2012), p. 31.</ref>
*January 2011-January 2018: Sir [[Robert Devereux (civil servant)|Robert Devereux]], KCB<ref name=":11" /><ref name=":0">''[https://ift.tt/2z1IPWY Annual Reports 2017-18]'', p. 103</ref>
*January 2018-present: [[Peter Schofield (civil servant)|Peter Schofield]], CB<ref name=":0" />
== Group Directors, Directors-General and other members of the Executive Team ==
=== Pensions and Disability Managing Director ===
* June 2001-September 2004: [[Paul Gray (civil servant)|Paul Gray]]<ref name=":4" /><ref name=":6">''Department for Work and Pensions Resource Accounts 2004-05'' (House of Commons Papers, 2005, HC 477), p. 11.</ref>
=== Head of Pensions Client Group ===
* August 2004-November 2004: [[Paul Gray (civil servant)|Paul Gray]] (acting)<ref name=":6" />
=== Director-General, Strategy and Pensions (later Strategy, Information and Pensions) ===
* November 2004-June 2009: [[Phil Wynn Owen]]<ref name=":6" /><ref name=":12">Resource Accounts 2009-10 (House of Commons Papers, 2010, HC 296), p. 29.</ref>
*June 2009-November 2009: [[Alan Woods (British civil servant)|Alan Woods]] (acting)<ref name=":12" />
*November 2009-October 2011: [[Richard Heaton]]<ref name=":12" /><ref name=":13">''[https://ift.tt/2OS9Lmr Annual Report 2011-12]'', p. 47</ref>
=== Director-General, DWP Transformation ===
* ??-January 2012: [[Richard Heaton]]<ref name=":13" />
=== Working Age and Children Client Group Director ===
* June 2001-April 2004: [[Ursula Brennan]]<ref name=":4" /><ref name=":7">''Department for Work and Pensions Resource Accounts 2003-04'' (House of Commons Papers, 2005, HC 170), p. 10.</ref>
* April 2004-September 2004: [[Michael Richardson (civil servant)|Michael Richardson]] (acting)<ref name=":7" />
=== Work, Welfare and Equality Group Director (later Director-General) ===
In April 2009, this was split into two areas; the new Welfare and Wellbeing Group was led by Sue Owen and the Employment Group by Adam Sharples with both posts being Director-General level.<ref name=":9">Resource Accounts 2008-09 (House of Commons Papers, 2009, HC 455), p. 31.</ref>
* September 2004-March 2009: [[Adam Sharples]]<ref name=":7" /><ref name=":6" /><ref name=":9" />
=== Director-General, Employment Group ===
* April 2009-October 2011: [[Adam Sharples]]<ref name=":9" /><ref name=":13" />
=== Director-General, Welfare and Wellbeing Group ===
* April 2009-October 2011: [[Sue Owen]]<ref name=":9" /><ref name=":13" />
=== Director-General, Strategy ===
* October 2011-September 2013: [[Sue Owen]]<ref name=":13" /><ref name=":14">''[https://ift.tt/2yZGhbw Annual Report 2013-14]'', p. 36.</ref>
=== Director-General, Strategy, Policy and Analysis ===
* October 2013-July 2017: [[Jeremy Moore (civil servant)|Jeremy Moore]] (acting until January 2014)<ref name=":14" /><ref name=":0" />
=== Director-General, Policy Group ===
Replaced Director-General, Strategy, Policy and Analysis in August 2017.<ref name=":0" />
* August 2017-present: [[Jonathan Mills (civil servant)|Jonathan Mills]]<ref name=":0" /><ref>"Jonathan Mills", ''Gov.uk''. Retrieved 15 August 2019.</ref>
=== Corporate Development Group Director ===
* June 2001-January 2003: [[Stephen Hickey (civil servant)|Stephen Hickey]]<ref name=":4" /><ref name=":5" />
=== Group Finance Director (later Director-General, Finance) ===
* December 2001-December 2009: [[John Codling]]<ref name=":4" /><ref name=":12" />
*December 2009-March 2010: [[Richard Paul (civil servant)|Richard Paul]]<ref name=":12" />
*March 2010-September 2012: [[Hunada Nouss]]<ref name=":12" /><ref name=":15">''[https://ift.tt/2z1KU56 Annual Report, 2012-13]'', p. 38.</ref>
*September 2012-March 2016: [[Mike Driver]]<ref name=":15" /><ref name=":1">''[https://ift.tt/2OXiWCb Annual Report 2015-16]'', p. 99.</ref>
*April 2016-July 2016: [[Jon Fundrey]] (acting)<ref name=":2">''[https://ift.tt/2OXiWCb Annual Report 2015-16]'', p. 75</ref><ref name=":3">''[https://ift.tt/2z2VVD2 Annual Report 2016-17]'', pp. 86-87.</ref>
*July 2016-January 2018: [[Peter Schofield (civil servant)|Peter Schofield]]<ref name=":3" /><ref name=":0" />
*January 2018-July 2018: [[Charu Gorasia]] (acting)<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":16">''[https://ift.tt/2OTh25A Annual Report 2018-19]'', p. 130.</ref>
*July 2018-present: [[Nick Joicey]]<ref name=":17">[https://ift.tt/2OTh25A Annual Report 2018-19], pp. 101-103.</ref><ref>[https://ift.tt/2yYHQXm "Nick Joicey"], ''Gov.uk''. Retrieved 15 August 2019.</ref>
=== Group Human Resources Director (later Director-General, Human Resources) ===
Replaced by Director-General, People and Capability in April 2019.<ref name=":18">[https://ift.tt/2OWQtMM "Debbie Alder"], ''Gov.uk''. Retrieved 15 August 2019.</ref>
* November 2001-June 2007: [[Kevin White (civil servant)|Kevin White]]<ref name=":4" /><ref name=":10">Resource Accounts 2006-07 (House of Commons Papers, 2007, HC 875), p. 24</ref>
*June 2007-January 2008: [[Jane Saint]] (acting)<ref name=":10" />
*January 2008-September 2013: [[Chris Last]]<ref name=":10" />
*January 2014-April 2019: [[Debbie Alder]]<ref name=":14" /><ref name=":18" />
=== Director-General, People and Capability ===
Replaced Director-General, Human Resources in April 2019.<ref name=":18" />
* April 2019-present: [[Debbie Alder]]<ref name=":18" />
=== Chief Information Officer (later Director-General IT and CIO) ===
Initially known as Group Programme and Systems Delivery Director and Chief Information Officer.
* January 2002-October 2003: [[Rob Westcott]]<ref name=":4" /><ref name=":7" />
* October 2003-July 2004: [[John Cross (civil servant)|John Cross]] (acting)<ref name=":7" />
* July 2004-April 2012: [[Joe Harley]]<ref name=":7" /><ref>Mark Chillingworth, [https://ift.tt/2z1Q68Y "DWP CIO Joe Harley retires"], ''CIO UK'', 22 November 2011. Retrieved 15 August 2019.</ref>
*April 2012-September 2012: [[Kenny Robertson (civil servant)|Kenny Robertson]]<ref name=":15" />
*September 2012-December 2012: [[Philip Langsdale]]<ref name=":15" />
*February 2013-July 2014: [[Andrew Nelson (civil servant)|Andrew Nelson]]<ref name=":15" /><ref name=":19">[https://ift.tt/2OTKTuB Annual Report 2014-15], p. 59.</ref>
*July 2014-December 2014: [[Steve Riley (civil servant)|Steve Riley]]<ref name=":19" />
=== Director-General, Technology and CIO (later Chief Digital and Information Officer) ===
*December 2014-December 2018: [[Mayank Prakash]]<ref name=":19" /><ref name=":16" />
*January 2019-present: [[Simon McKinnon]], CBE<ref name=":17" /><ref>[https://ift.tt/2z5PwXH "Simon McKinnon"], ''Gov.uk''. Retrieved 15 August 2019.</ref>
=== Director-General, Digital Transformation ===
* October 2013-August 2016: [[Kevin Cunnington]]<ref name=":14" /><ref name=":3" />
=== Communications Director ===
First appears on the Executive Board in 2005-06.<ref name=":8" />
* ??-October 2006: [[Simon MacDowell]]<ref name=":10" />
* October 2006-February 2007: [[Ken Young (civil servant)|Ken Young]]<ref name=":10" />
* February 2007-December 2010: [[Sue Garrard]]<ref name=":10" /><ref name=":11" />
=== Head of Law, Governance and Special Policy Group ===
First appears on the Executive Board in 2005-06.<ref name=":8" />
* 2004-July 2006: [[Paul Jenkins (barrister)|Paul Jenkins]]<ref name=":10" /><ref>"Jenkins, Sir Paul (Christopher)", ''Who's Who'' (online ed., Oxford University Press, December 2018). Retrieved 15 August 2019.</ref>
=== Director-General, Legal ===
Initially known as Solicitor and Director-General, Law, Governance and Special Policy Group. Replaced by DG Professional Services in October 2011.
* January 2007-November 2009: [[Richard Heaton]]<ref name=":10" /><ref name=":12" />
*November 2009-February 2010: [[Isabel Letwin]]<ref name=":12" />
*March 2010-October 2011: [[Gill Aitkin]]<ref name=":12" /><ref name=":13" />
=== Director-General, Professional Services ===
Replaced by Director-General, Legal Services.
* October 2011-January 2014: [[Gill Aitkin]]<ref name=":13" /><ref name=":14" />
=== Director-General, Legal Services ===
Role abolished in April 2019.<ref name=":20">[https://ift.tt/2OTh25A Annual Report 2018-19], p. 14.</ref>
*January 2015-August 2018: [[Claire Johnston (lawyer)|Claire Johnston]]<ref name=":21">[https://ift.tt/2OTKTuB Annual Report 2014-15], pp. 60-61, 70.</ref><ref name=":16" />
*December 2018-April 2019: [[Susanna McGibbon]]<ref name=":17" /><ref name=":20" />
=== Director-General, Universal Credit (Programme) ===
Later known as Director-General, Universal Credit Programme, to distinguish the role from Director-General, Universal Credit Operations, established in February 2017. Role abolished in April 2019.<ref name=":20" />
* December 2010-October 2011: [[Terry Moran (British civil servant)|Terry Moran]]<ref name=":11" /><ref name=":13" />
* May 2013-May 2013: [[Howard Shiplee]], CBE<ref name=":14" /><ref name=":21" />
*October 2014-April 2019: [[Neil Couling]], CBE<ref name=":21" /><ref name=":22">[https://ift.tt/2yZ7HOV "Neil Couling, CBE"], ''Gov.uk''. Retrieved 15 August 2019.</ref>
=== Director-General, Universal Credit Operations ===
Role abolished in April 2019.<ref name=":20" />
* February 2017-March 2018: [[Susan Park (civil servant)|Susan Park]]<ref name=":3" /><ref name=":0" />
* March 2018-April 2019: [[John-Paul Marks]] (acting)<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":23">[https://ift.tt/2OXUlNR "John Paul Marks"], ''Gov.uk''. Retrieved 15 August 2019.</ref>
=== Director-General, Chief Operating Officer ===
* October 2011-March 2013: [[Terry Moran (British civil servant)|Terry Moran]]<ref name=":13" /><ref name=":15" />
=== Director-General, Operations ===
Role abolished in 2019.<ref name=":20" />
* October 2012-March 2016: [[Noel Shanahan]]<ref name=":15" /><ref name=":1" />
*March 2016-April 2018: [[Andrew Rhodes]]<ref name=":2" /><ref>''[https://ift.tt/2z1IPWY Annual Report 2017-18]'', p. 94.</ref>
*March 2018-April 2019: [[Susan Park (civil servant)|Susan Park]] (acting)<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":20" />
=== Director-General, Work and Health Services ===
Established in April 2019.<ref name=":20" />
* April 2019-present: [[John-Paul Marks]]<ref name=":23" />
=== Director-General, Change ===
Established in April 2019.<ref name=":20" />
* April 2019-present: [[Neil Couling]], CBE (also Senior Responsible Officer, Universal Credit)<ref name=":22" />
=== Director-General, Service Excellence ===
Established in April 2019.<ref name=":20" />
* April 2019-present: [[Emma Haddad]]<ref>[https://ift.tt/2z1Q8xC "Emma Haddad"], ''Gov.uk''. Retrieved 15 August 2019.</ref>
== Heads of agencies ==
=== Chief Executive, Job Centre Plus (formerly Employment Service) ===
* June 2001-February 2003: [[Leigh Lewis]]<ref name=":4" /><ref name=":5" />
* February 2003-May 2003: [[Clare Dodgson]] (acting)<ref name=":5" /><ref name=":7" />
* June 2003-May 2005: [[David Anderson (civil servant)|David Anderson]]<ref name=":7" /><ref name=":6" />
* May 2005-November 2008: [[Lesley Strathie]]<ref name=":6" /><ref name=":9" />
*November 2008-November 2009: [[Mel Groves]] (acting)<ref name=":9" /><ref name=":12" />
*November 2009-September 2011: [[Darra Singh]]<ref name=":12" /><ref name=":13" />
=== Chief Operating Officer, Job Centre Plus ===
After February 2003, no longer a member of the Executive Team.
* September 2001-February 2003: [[Clare Dodgson]]<ref name=":4" /><ref name=":5" />
=== Chief Executive, Pension Service (previously Benefits Service) ===
Merged into The Pension, Disability and Carers Service in April 2008.
* June 2001-July 2007: [[Alexis Cleveland]]<ref name=":4" /><ref>Resource Accounts 2007-08 (House of Commons Papers, 2008, HC 863), p. 30</ref>
*July 2007-April 2008: [[Terry Moran (British civil servant)|Terry Moran]]<ref name=":10" />
=== Chief Executive, Child Support Agency ===
* June 2001-April 2005: [[Doug Smith (civil servant)|Doug Smith]]<ref name=":4" /><ref name=":6" />
* April 2005-October 2008: [[Stephen Geraghty]]<ref name=":6" /><ref name=":9" />
=== Chief Executive, Disability and Carers Service ===
Merged with The Pension Service to form The Pension, Disability and Carers Service.
* December 2005-July 2007: [[Terry Moran (British civil servant)|Terry Moran]]<ref name=":8" />
* July 2007-March 2008: [[Vivien Hopkins]] (acting)<ref name=":10" />
=== Chief Executive, The Pension, Disability and Carers Service ===
* April 2008-November 2010: [[Terry Moran (British civil servant)|Terry Moran]]<ref name=":10" /><ref name=":11" />
*December 2010-September 2011: [[Vivien Hopkins]] (acting)<ref name=":11" /><ref name=":13" />
== References ==
[[Category:Department for Work and Pensions]]
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