Question follow-through · 9172

Employment Schemes: Mental Illness

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what discussions she has had with the Department of Communities in Northern Ireland on supporting young adults with mental health issues back into work.

answeredDepartment for Work and Pensions

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Answering body: Department for Work and Pensions
Tabled: 15 Oct 2024
Target answer date: 17 Oct 2024
Answer: 23 Oct 2024 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

15 Oct 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what discussions she has had with the Department of Communities in Northern Ireland on supporting young adults with mental health issues back into work.
17 Oct 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
23 Oct 2024
Answer published
Social security is devolved in Northern Ireland and is administered by the Department for Communities and it is for the Devolved Government to decide how to deliver employment support. The Department understands the longstanding negative implications unem...

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