by Chris Rogers | 17 Feb 2014 | Employment, Politics, Welfare
Shadow Work and Pensions Secretary Rachel Reeves has criticised the Department for Work and Pensions after it has emerged that claimants in one of the regions piloting the Universal Credit scheme has disappeared from official statistics on unemployment. The news came...
by Chris Rogers | 10 Feb 2014 | Outsourcing, Politics, Welfare
The Daily Mail has reported on a leaked DWP document which discusses the option of outsourcing the delivery of the state pensions service as part of possible measures to meet needed annual efficiency savings of £2 billion annually over the next two financial years....
by Chris Rogers | 6 Feb 2014 | Welfare
A written parliamentary question from Rachel Reeves to the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has uncovered that £612 million has been spent on introducing Universal Credit since 2010, a figure that amounts to £225,000 for each of the 2,720 people so far on the...
by Chris Rogers | 22 Jan 2014 | Economy, Employment, Politics, Welfare
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) this morning published their latest monthly Labour Market Statistics, covering the quarter September – November 2013 (where figures refer to the ‘previous quarter’, this is June – August 2013). The figures show that...
by Chris Rogers | 17 Jan 2014 | Employment, Politics, Third Sector
The Government, led by the DWP, has published its response to the Better Working with Disabled People consultation, which ran between July and October 2013. The response proposes the creation of a ‘Fulfilling Potential Forum’, to be chaired by Mike Penning and the...
