Question follow-through · 18046
Department for Work and Pensions: Rural Areas
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she is taking to ensure that (a) the most vulnerable and (b) other people living in rural constituencies can easily access her Department's support (i) digitally and (ii) through local office
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 4 Dec 2024
- Target answer date
- 6 Dec 2024
- Answer
- 12 Dec 2024 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
4 Dec 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she is taking to ensure that (a) the most vulnerable and (b) other people living in rural constituencies can easily access her Department's support (i) digitally and (ii) through local office
6 Dec 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
12 Dec 2024
Answer published
All DWP colleagues are trained to support our most vulnerable customers and have access to a wide range of guidance and signposting to support them. Where further specialist help is required, DWP has a national network of Advanced Customer Support Senior ...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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