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.
About this written question
A written question asks a government minister for information in writing. Parliament publishes the question and any answer.
- 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 she is taking to ensure that planned reforms to the disability benefit system ensure security and support for seriously ill and disabled people.
9 Jan 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
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...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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