Question follow-through · 19027
Employment: Rural Areas
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she is taking to support older workers in rural settings.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 10 Dec 2024
- Target answer date
- 12 Dec 2024
- Answer
- 17 Dec 2024 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
10 Dec 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she is taking to support older workers in rural settings.
12 Dec 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
17 Dec 2024
Answer published
The government is reforming jobcentres to better match people with the right jobs and provide employment, skills, and career-focused support to individuals, including those in rural and coastal areas.A new national jobs and careers service will be introdu...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
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