Question follow-through · 21819
Unemployment: Government Assistance
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department is taking to support people who are out of work but not receiving employment support.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 3 Jan 2025
- Target answer date
- 7 Jan 2025
- Answer
- 10 Jan 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
3 Jan 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department is taking to support people who are out of work but not receiving employment support.
7 Jan 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
10 Jan 2025
Answer published
As part of the biggest reforms in a generation, DWP will shift from being a department for welfare to being a department for work. The Get Britain Working White Paper published in November set out plans to deliver fundamental reform of our health, employm...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Employment: Dyslexia
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Employment: Dyslexia
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Employment: Neurodiversity
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Poverty: Somerset
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Personal Independence Payment
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Personal Independence Payment: Reform
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Personal Independence Payment: Arthritis
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Personal Independence Payment: ME/CFS
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