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Connect to Work: Arthritis

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether the Connect to Work scheme will include provisions to support people living with arthritis to remain in employment.

answeredDepartment for Work and Pensions

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Answering body: Department for Work and Pensions
Tabled: 4 Nov 2024
Target answer date: 6 Nov 2024
Answer: 12 Nov 2024 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

4 Nov 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether the Connect to Work scheme will include provisions to support people living with arthritis to remain in employment.
6 Nov 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
12 Nov 2024
Answer published
Connect to Work will be a new, locally led, voluntary Supported Employment programme in England and Wales which in 26/27 will support around 100,000 disabled people, people with health conditions (such as arthritis) and those with complex barriers to empl...

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Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.

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