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Policy publications help to explain how we are taking forward the Government’s plans – from policy development to delivery proposals and evaluation. Policy publications include Green Papers, White Papers and reports that shape policy.

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Policy areas

Welfare reform Date
Welfare reform  
Working for a healthier tomorrow (2.4MB) pdf (this links to the Health Work Wellbeing website) 18/03/08
DWP Commissioning Strategy (734KB) pdf

Strategaeth Comisiynu’r Adran Gwaith a Phensiynau (523KB) pdf

28/02/08
Working Neighbourhoods Fund” document published jointly by Communities and Local Government (CLG) and DWP (links to CLG website) 30/11/07
DWP Commissioning Strategy – interim report (74KB) pdf 27/11/07
Opportunity, Employment and Progression: making skills work (462KB) pdf

Cyfle, Cyflogaeth a Chynnydd: gwneud i sgiliau weithio (132KB) pdf
26/11/07
Statutory Sick Pay review working group – final report 25/10/07
North West – Moving Towards Full Employment 18/05/07
Wales – Towards Full Employment 09/03/07
Freud Report – Reducing dependency, increasing opportunity – options for the future of welfare to work 05/03/07
Scotland – Employment and prosperity 26/01/07
Getting welfare right – Tackling error in the benefit system 24/01/07
Personal Capability Assessment, Transformation of the (290KB) pdf 10/10/06
Health, work and well-being – Caring for our future (237KB) pdf 19/10/05
Building on New Deal – local solutions meeting individual needs 17/06/04
Policies for Full Employment – labour market reform in Europe 22/03/04
Pensions and older people Date
Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No. 4) Regulations 2008 (1.12MB) pdf 15/09/08
Pensions Reform  
Memorandum of Understanding between the Department for Work and Pensions, the Pensions Regulator and the Pension Protection Fund (126KB) pdf 27/02/08
Trusting in the pensions promise – Response to the report by the Parliamentary Ombudsman (192KB) pdf 06/06/06
Response to the Public Administration Select Committee's Sixth Report (2005-06) – report on pensions and its constitutional implications (85KB) pdf 02/11/06
Women and pensions – the evidence (900KB) pdf 02/11/05
Opportunity Age – Meeting the challenges of ageing in the 21st century  
Principles for reform – the national pensions debate 24/02/05
Pension Credit – a review of the campaign to May 2004 (690KB) pdf 06/07/04
Simplicity, security and choice – Informed choices for working and saving 03/02/04
Occupational and personal pensions
Speeding Up Winding Up Of Occupational Pension Schemes (137KB) pdf A report of the Government’s review 02/11/06
The Occupational and Personal Pension Schemes (Consultation by Employers and Miscellaneous Amendment) Regulations 2006, and
The Occupational Pension Schemes (Consultation by Employers)(Modification for Multi-employer Schemes) Regulations 2006
(87KB) pdf
(DWP guidance on the Regulations)
01/2007
Occupational and Personal Pension Schemes – Review of Certain Contracting-Out Terms (972KB) pdf 15/03/06
The Hosker Report (270KB) pdf
CW Cheney & Son Limited Pension Scheme – report of the inquiry
08/11/05
Occupational Pension Scheme (Equal Treatment) (Amendment) Regulations 2005 Documents relating to the Statutory Instrument 21/07/05
Children Date
Child maintenance redesign  
Child poverty  
Harker report on child poverty 01/11/06
Report on Child Poverty in the UK – Reply by the Government to the Second Report of the Work and Pensions Select Committee 08/06/04
Social inclusion Date
Opportunity for all – 2007 update 18/10/07
National Report on Strategies for Social Protection and Social Inclusion 19/09/08
Tackling poverty – a progress report (639KB) pdf 09/03/06
A Modern Social Dimension for Europe – Principles for Reform (178KB) pdf 24/10/05
National Strategy Report on Adequate and Sustainable Pensions, UK 22/07/05
Working to Rebuild Lives – A Refugee Employment Strategy 09/03/05
UK Employment Action Plan 2003 24/02/04
Other policy areas Date
Review of the Disability Living Allowance Advisory Board 19/11/07
Independent Living Fund Review 15/03/07

Housing costs – Standard Interest Rate (13KB) pdf

Cyfradd Llog Safonol (17KB) pdf

14/03/07
Vocational Rehabilitation, A UK Framework for 27/10/04
Code of Practice for tracing ELCI policies  
Mesothelioma
Help and advice for people with mesothelioma (357KB) pdf 22/03/07
Industrial Injuries Disablement Benefit – Improving claims handling in mesothelioma cases – consultation report (41KB) pdf 01/03/07
Fraud
Reducing fraud in the benefit system (1.21MB) pdf 13/10/05
Sanction Policy – for fraudulent Social Security benefit claims (101KB) pdf 04/05/06
Reducing re-offending through skills and employment 15/12/05
Simplification
Simplification and the customer (746KB) pdf 05/10/07
Simplification – Guide to Best Practice (166KB) pdf 12/06/06
Simplification Plan 2006/07 11/12/06