DWP Business Plan 2011-2015
The DWP Business Plan sets out the Government’s priorities and key deliverables.
As part of the Government’s transparency drive, all departments are required to publish Business Plans. They set out in unprecedented detail the public sector reforms that the Government is undertaking, helping the public to hold Government to account.
What’s in the Business Plan?
The Business Plan has five sections: vision, coalition priorities, Structural Reform Plan, departmental expenditure and transparency.
The vision sets out the Department’s ambitious agenda of reform which aims to create a new welfare system for the 21st century.
The coalition priorities set out the Department’s six main structural reform priorities and its other major areas of responsibility. In brief, the Department’s six structural reform priorities are to:
- reform the welfare system by introducing the Universal Credit and other reforms to simplify the welfare system;
- get Britain working via the Work Programme, an integrated package of personalised support to get people into work, and other programmes;
- help tackle the causes of poverty and improve social justice;
- reform pensions by providing decent State Pensions and encourage employers to provide high quality pensions;
- enable disabled people to fulfil their potential; and
- improve the Department’s service to the public.
The Structural Reform Plan sets out in detail the actions that the Department will take to deliver against these priorities. The Department publishes monthly updates on its performance against the Structural Reform Plan.
Departmental expenditure sets out how the Department is spending taxpayers’ money as clearly and transparently as possible. It includes information showing the Department’s planned expenditure over the Spending Review period, as agreed with the Treasury.
The Transparency section contains the Department’s Information Strategy, which describes the steps the Department is taking to make its data and information publicly available. It includes a list of input, impact and other data indicators, with their related data sets, which can be used to assess performance in the Department’s key priority areas. Users of public services and tax payers can use this information to make informed choices and hold the Department to account, in line with the Government’s commitment to greater transparency.
Performance indicator results will be published in a standard Business Plan Quarterly Data Summary (QDS).
DWP Business Plan 2011-2015
In line with all Government departments, the Department for Work and Pensions updated its Business Plan on 13 May 2011. The Business Plan was first published in November 2010.
- DWP Business Plan 2011-2015 (374KB)
- Annex A Common areas of spend (274KB)
- Annex B Structural Reform Plan amendments (37KB)
- Indicative data for the planned departmental spending chart in the Business Plan (32KB)
Structural Reform Plan monthly progress reports
2012
- April 2012 update – DWP Structural Reform Plan (164KB)
- March 2012 update – DWP Structural Reform Plan (162KB)
- February 2012 update – DWP Structural Reform Plan (139KB)
- January 2012 update – DWP Structural Reform Plan (69KB)
2011
- December 2011 update – DWP Structural Reform Plan (135KB)
- November 2011 update – DWP Structural Reform Plan (214KB)
- October 2011 update – DWP Structural Reform Plan (93KB)
- September 2011 update – DWP Structural Reform Plan (96KB)
- August 2011 update – DWP Structural Reform Plan (81KB)
- July 2011 update – DWP Structural Reform Plan (71KB)
- June 2011 update – DWP Structural Reform Plan (82KB)
- May 2011 update – DWP Structural Reform Plan (87KB)
- April 2011 update – DWP Structural Reform Plan (99KB)
- March 2011 update – DWP Structural Reform Plan (101KB)
- February 2011 update – DWP Structural Reform Plan (112KB)
- January 2011 update – DWP Structural Reform Plan (111KB)
2010
- December 2010 update – DWP Structural Reform Plan (82KB)
- November 2010 update – DWP Structural Reform Plan (95KB)
- October 2010 update – DWP Structural Reform Plan (85KB)
- September 2010 update – DWP Structural Reform Plan (68KB)
- August 2010 update – DWP Structural Reform Plan (51KB)
- July 2010 update – DWP Structural Reform Plan (68KB)
