Question follow-through · 22513

Social Security Benefits: Chronic Illnesses and Disability

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she is taking to ensure that planned reforms to the disability benefit system ensure security and support for seriously ill and disabled people.

answeredDepartment for Work and Pensions

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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

  1. 7 Jan 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she is taking to ensure that planned reforms to the disability benefit system ensure security and support for seriously ill and disabled people.

  2. 9 Jan 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 14 Jan 2025

    Answer published

    This government believes there is a strong case to change the system of health and disability benefits across Great Britain so that it better enables people to enter and remain in work, and to respond to the complex and fluctuating nature of the health co...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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