Question follow-through · 17049
Kidney Diseases
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment with Cabinet colleagues of the potential impact of trends in the number of people with kidney disease on the economy.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 29 Nov 2024
- Target answer date
- 3 Dec 2024
- Answer
- 9 Dec 2024 · 10 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
29 Nov 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment with Cabinet colleagues of the potential impact of trends in the number of people with kidney disease on the economy.
3 Dec 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
9 Dec 2024
Answer published
The Government recognises that long-term sickness continues to be the most common reason for economic inactivity among the working age population. As part of the Get Britain Working plan, more disabled people and those with health conditions will be supp...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
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