Social Security Benefits: Wales

(asked on 1st November 2017) - View Source

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what plans he has to amend the Social Security (Information-sharing in relation to Welfare Service etc) Regulations 2012 to enable data-sharing on employment and training between his Department and the Welsh Government.


Answered by
Caroline Dinenage Portrait
Caroline Dinenage
This question was answered on 7th November 2017

I can confirm that the amendments have been made to the aforementioned Regulations and were laid before Parliament on 23 October.

They are due to come into force on the 15th November 2017 and will be known as “The Social Security (Information-sharing in relation to Welfare Services etc.) (Amendment) Regulations 2017”.

These amendments will allow the Department for Work and Pensions to provide information on people aged between 18 and 25 who are in receipt of Jobseeker’s Allowance, Employment and Support Allowance or Universal Credit to Careers Wales (a wholly owned subsidiary of the Welsh Government) and to allow Careers Wales to hold such information to allow them to provide advice, assistance and support to such persons.

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