Question follow-through · 24211
Social Security Benefits: Disability
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether she has made an estimate of the cost to the public purse of social security benefits for people unable to work because of an acquired brain injury.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 15 Jan 2025
- Target answer date
- 17 Jan 2025
- Answer
- 21 Jan 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling
Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.
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Recorded timeline
15 Jan 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether she has made an estimate of the cost to the public purse of social security benefits for people unable to work because of an acquired brain injury.
17 Jan 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
21 Jan 2025
Answer published
The Department does not hold the information requested.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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