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EXCLUSIVE: DWP establishes devolution directorate

The Department for Work and Pensions’ (DWP) policy group has established a devolution directorate.

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By Dan Peters | 30 October 2026
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The Department for Work and Pensions' (DWP) policy group has established a devolution directorate. 

A message from DWP's localism strategy team said the directorate had been created to ‘bring greater focus and momentum to DWP's devolution ambitions and to help make devolution by default a reality across the department'.

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