Question follow-through · 20460
Refugees: Employment
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, for what reason her Department discontinued the Refugee Employability Programme.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 16 Dec 2024
- Target answer date
- 18 Dec 2024
- Answer
- 23 Dec 2024 · 7 calendar days after tabling
Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.
Votes on this topic
- Draft Code of Practice on Electronic and Workplace Ballots for Statutory Trade Union Ballots · 15 Jul 2026
- Draft Trade Unions (Permissible Means of Voting) and Employment Rights (Unfair Dismissal) (Amendment) Order 2026 · 15 Jul 2026
- Taxation (Energy and Vehicles) Bill Committee: New Clause 5 · 1 Jul 2026
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Recorded timeline
16 Dec 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, for what reason her Department discontinued the Refugee Employability Programme.
18 Dec 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
23 Dec 2024
Answer published
I refer the Honourable Member to the answer I gave on 17 December to Question UIN 18515.
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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