Question follow-through · 35793
Employment: Musculoskeletal Disorders
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department is taking to support people living with a musculoskeletal condition to remain in work.
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 5 Mar 2025
- Target answer date
- 7 Mar 2025
- Answer
- 12 Mar 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
5 Mar 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department is taking to support people living with a musculoskeletal condition to remain in work.
7 Mar 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
12 Mar 2025
Answer published
MSK conditions are one of the leading conditions reported by people who are economically inactive due to long-term sickness in the UK, increasing by 34% between 2018/19 and 2023/24. The ‘Get Britain Working’ white paper sets out government’s plans to refo...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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