The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) Data Strategy is designed to transform the way the department uses data and analytics. It will help to enhance services delivered to customers, taxpayers and DWP colleagues, improving real time decision-making.
When fully adopted, the Data Strategy will:-
Make it easier for customers to access services, reducing delays and streamlining processes.
Enable them to deliver more precise, tailored support for the complex and varied needs of their customers.
Improve agility, with speedier access to analytics helping to inform real-time decision-making.
Free up colleagues from tedious repetitive tasks, allowing them to focus more on the needs of their customers.
Move them away from legacy systems to modern platforms that are more advanced and cost-effective. This is all part of a wider digital transformation across government, some of it powered by innovative Artificial Intelligence technologies.
The Policy Paper was published on 29 January 2026 and can be found at https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dwp-data-strategy-2023-to-2030.
This document, which was published on 18 December 2025, sets out an update on the progress of the Timms Review of Personal Independence Payment (PIP), from the Review's co-chairs.
The document can be found at https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/the-timms-review-co-chair-update-december-2025?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=govuk-notifications-topic&utm_source=2892821e-1155-46d8-9852-f2e6dae48985&utm_content=daily.
The Welsh Government asked for views on proposed changes to provider annual returns and applications to cancel registration.
The proposed changes were to make regulations that:-
Set the deadline for a service provider to publish an annual return on its website.
Allowed a penalty notice to be issued when a service provider failed to publish its annual return.
Set out what information a service provider must give to cancel its registration.
The consultati
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