Question follow-through · 36106
Universal Credit: Work Experience
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether it is her Department’s policy for claimants eligible only for basic Universal Credit who have not found employment after 18 months to undertake mandatory work experience placements.
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 6 Mar 2025
- Target answer date
- 13 Mar 2025
- Answer
- 17 Mar 2025 · 11 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
6 Mar 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether it is her Department’s policy for claimants eligible only for basic Universal Credit who have not found employment after 18 months to undertake mandatory work experience placements.
13 Mar 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
17 Mar 2025
Answer published
Decisions about the future direction of the work, health and skills agenda will be set out at the multi-year spending review in 2025, building on the ambitions set out in the Get Britain Working white paper.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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