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Identity

As written in the research. Data as of 28 October 2026 (edition 2.1).

official nameDepartment for Work and Pensions

short labelDWP

govuk categoryMinisterial department

govuk urlgov.uk/government/organisations/department-for-w

headquartersCaxton House, 6-12 Tothill Street, London, SW1H 9NA (address as published on Find a Tender contract award notice 2025/S 000-060504, https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/060504-2025 — "Department for Work & Pensions, Caxton House, 6-12 Tothill Street, London, SW1H 9NA"); lat 51.500173, lng -0.131295 (api.postcodes.io blocked by the session proxy on 2026-10-28; see Gaps) (address: https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/060504-2025 (address as quoted in the master record; page not reopened in this pass). The GOV.UK organisation page, opened 2026-10-28, shows no postal address; coordinates: https://api.postcodes.io/postcodes/SW1H9NA (accessed 2026-10-28))

parent (as of 2026-10-28)none (ministerial department). Its minister on the AI brief is Lilian Greenwood MP, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State (Minister for Innovation, Fraud and Data), appointed 22 July 2026.

previous parent / parent changednot applicable for DWP itself. The Public Sector Fraud Authority moved into DWP on 22 July 2026 (previously Cabinet Office and HM Treasury).

blurbThe department that pays pensions and benefits to around 20 million people, and uses machine learning to risk-score Universal Credit advances, read 25,000 letters a day and run its telephone lines.

website still shows old brandingno for DWP itself. Yes for the PSFA page, which on 2026-10-28 still said "PSFA (Public Sector Fraud Authority) is part of the Cabinet Office and HM Treasury." Several ATRS record headers list Cabinet Office, DSIT and GDS as publishers.

Gaps the research left open

11Shown as gaps, never filled in by guesswork. Supplement 1 (the second pass) closed some; they are listed below.

Health and Disability Assessment AI: no GOV.UK page on AI in the Functional Assessment Service or PIP/WCA assessments was found in one web search. Not recorded.
No "Independent Review of DWP's use of AI" was found. The closest are the department's own annual fairness/effectiveness assessments of the UC advances model (GOV-DWP-005). Not recorded as a review.
No DWP document titled an "AI strategy" was found on GOV.UK; the closest are the AI Security Policy (GOV-DWP-023), the Nexus AI contract and the advertised deputy director post. The "2030 Strategy" named in Lilian Greenwood's responsibilities was not located.
Contracts Finder keyword search could not be run (the site's search form and its OCDS API ignored keyword parameters in this session). The Nexus AI contract was traced via Find a Tender instead. Other DWP AI contracts (for example a reported £100k AI sentiment analysis tool, May 2026, and the Conversational Platform's Omilia contract) were not opened.
The GOV.UK search API with filter_organisations returned many non-AI items for "artificial intelligence" (it matches "intelligence"); DWP news for the last 30 days was taken from the organisation page and the fraud query.
DWP Digital blog (dwpdigital.blog.gov.uk) could not be opened in this session. — Partly closed (Supplement 1): The blog's feed, August 2026 archive and one post opened. The blog has posted only about ten times since January 2024; the only AI system it describes is the Kiro coding tool at an August 2026 hackathon (GOV-DWP-032). It describes none of the master's DWP AI systems. The home page and four 2024–2026 posts (student work experience May 2026, From pitch to progress September 2025, Makers Awards February 2025, Celebrating success July 2024) did not open (permission timed out); their AI lines are taken from the feed text only (S1 GOV-DWP-001; S3 dwp People). No AI category exists on the blog.
The PSFA GOV.UK page still shows the old parent; the move is recorded from the machinery-of-government fact sheet. The PSFA's 2026 news (Airbnb social housing fraud partnership, 8 July 2026; Wirral Blue Badges, 29 June 2026) was not opened.
Skills England's move to DWP is inferred from the GOV.UK organisations index and the DWP ministers list (Baroness Smith of Malvern, Minister for Skills); the machinery-of-government fact sheet text returned did not mention skills.
The Universal Credit Advances record's internal metadata shows an update on 2026-10-19 but the visible page shows no change note.
HMRC's Transformation Roadmap foreword names Dan Tomlinson MP as Exchequer Secretary (July 2026) while the HMRC organisation page on 2026-10-28 lists James Murray MP as Financial Secretary to the Treasury; ministerial changes between July and October 2026 were not traced.
A web-fetch hourly rate limit was hit at 12:26 UTC; research resumed after 13:00 UTC for the Treasury page.

Closed by Supplement 1 (2)

"legislation.gov.uk could not be opened … so the Act's chapter number and section headings are not recorded" — GOV-DWP-017 note amended: 2025 c. 28; s.78, s.79, Schedule 3 (Schedule 3B to the Social Security Administration Act 1992), s.19, s.95, Schedule 5.
"api.postcodes.io was blocked … for SW1H 9NA, SW1A 2BQ and SW1A 2HQ" — S1a (dwp, dcms, hm-treasury Identity); S1b GOV-DWP-001, 002, 031. The DWP address still rests on the Find a Tender notice: the GOV.UK organisation page shows no postal address.

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