Question follow-through · 22518
Employment: Offenders
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department is taking to support people with a criminal record to find employment.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 7 Jan 2025
- Target answer date
- 9 Jan 2025
- Answer
- 14 Jan 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
7 Jan 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department is taking to support people with a criminal record to find employment.
9 Jan 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
14 Jan 2025
Answer published
This Government understands the challenges a criminal record can bring to finding a job and also recognises that employment significantly reduces the risk of reoffending. The recently published Get Britain Working White Paper sets out Government’s proposa...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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