Question follow-through · 27176
Employment: Disability
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she is taking to make workplaces more accessible for disabled people.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 29 Jan 2025
- Target answer date
- 3 Feb 2025
- Answer
- 6 Feb 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
29 Jan 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she is taking to make workplaces more accessible for disabled people.
3 Feb 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
6 Feb 2025
Answer published
We are committed to boosting opportunity and championing the rights of disabled people. We will work closely with disabled people and their representative organisations to ensure that their needs and voices are at the heart of everything we do. Employers ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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