Question follow-through · 2700
Pensioners: Disability
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will take steps to provide additional financial support to disabled people in receipt of the State Pension.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 30 Jul 2024
- Target answer date
- 5 Sept 2024
- Answer
- 5 Sept 2024 · 37 calendar days after tabling
Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.
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Recorded timeline
30 Jul 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will take steps to provide additional financial support to disabled people in receipt of the State Pension.
5 Sept 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
5 Sept 2024
Answer published
Ensuring a decent foundation State Pension for pensioners is a priority for this Government. That is why we have set out our commitment to the Triple Lock, which will substantially improve outcomes for current and future pensioners. There are already othe...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
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