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Social Security Benefits: Disability

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether she is taking steps to reform the disability benefits system for people living with multiple sclerosis.

answeredDepartment for Work and Pensions

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Answering body
Department for Work and Pensions
Tabled
28 Oct 2024
Target answer date
30 Oct 2024
Answer
1 Nov 2024 · 4 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 28 Oct 2024

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether she is taking steps to reform the disability benefits system for people living with multiple sclerosis.

  2. 30 Oct 2024

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 1 Nov 2024

    Answer published

    This government is committed to breaking down the barriers to opportunity for disabled people and people with health conditions, including people with multiple sclerosis, improving our employment and health support offer and tackling rising levels of econ...

Open official record

Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.

Later records

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