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Employment Schemes

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what measure her Department will use to determine whether devolved authorities have been successful in delivering employment support.

answeredDepartment for Work and Pensions

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Answering body: Department for Work and Pensions
Tabled: 17 Dec 2024
Target answer date: 6 Jan 2025
Answer: 8 Jan 2025 · 22 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

17 Dec 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what measure her Department will use to determine whether devolved authorities have been successful in delivering employment support.
6 Jan 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
8 Jan 2025
Answer published
Within our Get Britain Working reforms, we committed to offering new responsibilities and funding to mayors and local areas in England because local leaders know their communities best. This includes supporting areas in England to produce Get Britain Work...

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