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Employment: Disability

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department is taking to help disabled people into work.

answeredDepartment for Work and Pensions

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Answering body: Department for Work and Pensions
Tabled: 12 Dec 2024
Target answer date: 16 Dec 2024
Answer: 19 Dec 2024 · 7 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

12 Dec 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department is taking to help disabled people into work.
16 Dec 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
19 Dec 2024
Answer published
Backed by £240m investment, the Get Britain Working White Paper launched on 26 November will drive forward approaches to tackling economic inactivity and work toward the long-term ambition of an 80% employment rate. Appropriate work is generally good for ...

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