Question follow-through · 8333
Employment: Rural Areas
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she is taking to help increase levels of workforce economic activity in rural areas.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 9 Oct 2024
- Target answer date
- 14 Oct 2024
- Answer
- 15 Oct 2024 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
9 Oct 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she is taking to help increase levels of workforce economic activity in rural areas.
14 Oct 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
15 Oct 2024
Answer published
The Government considers the current rate of inactivity to be unacceptably high. With nearly 2.8 million people out of work due to long-term sickness and the inactivity rate above pre-pandemic levels at 21.9% for May-July 2024, unlike most major economies...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
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Employment: Disability
13 Jan 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, further to the answer to UIN 92453 of 21 November 2025, what further assessment will be made of the Disability Confident scheme, and what action will be taken to assess employees and applicants experien