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Employment: Mental Illness

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department has taken to help people with mental health conditions to (a) enter employment and (b) increase their hours.

answeredDepartment for Work and Pensions

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Answering body
Department for Work and Pensions
Tabled
21 Oct 2024
Target answer date
24 Oct 2024
Answer
24 Oct 2024 · 3 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 21 Oct 2024

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department has taken to help people with mental health conditions to (a) enter employment and (b) increase their hours.

  2. 24 Oct 2024

    Target answer date

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  3. 24 Oct 2024

    Answer published

    Appropriate work is generally good for health and wellbeing, so we want everyone to get work and get on in work, whoever they are and wherever they live. We want people to avoid poverty, and for this to happen we must ensure that disabled people and peopl...

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Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.

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