Question follow-through · 26591
Unemployed People: Travel
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of providing assistance for costs to unemployed jobseekers for travelling to in-person interviews for temporary jobs on minimum pay.
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 27 Jan 2025
- Target answer date
- 29 Jan 2025
- Answer
- 4 Feb 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
27 Jan 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of providing assistance for costs to unemployed jobseekers for travelling to in-person interviews for temporary jobs on minimum pay.
29 Jan 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
4 Feb 2025
Answer published
Our new Get Britain Working plan is designed to reform employment support and create a new jobs and careers service to help people into work. We know that travel costs can be a barrier to work for unemployed customers. Currently the Flexible Support Fund ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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