Who is the current Work and Pensions Secretary?
Work Programme rural areas. Some subcontractors felt this also affected their ability to meet the needs of particular groups of participants. The Work Programme was blamed for the closure of some charities who criticised the way in which WP contracts were structured. The workfare element of the Work Programme was ruled "ultra vires" in a 2013 Court of Appeal judgment which stated that the Jobseeker's Allowance (Employment, Skills and Enterprise Scheme) Regulations 2011 did not describe the employment schemes to which they apply, as is required by the primary legislation. The Secretary of State for Work and Pensions Iain Duncan Smith responded
Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (for political parties):<br> "Posts of Minister of Pensions and Minister of National Insurance merged in 1953." Secretary of State for Work and Pensions Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, or informally Work and Pensions Secretary is a post in the British Cabinet, responsible for the Department for Work and Pensions. It was created on 8 June 2001 by the merger of the Employment division of the Department for Education and Employment and the Department of Social Security. The Ministry of Pensions was created in 1916 to handle the payment of war pensions to former members of