Question follow-through · 38300
Employment: Disability
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she is taking to support more people with disabilities to (a) enter and (b) remain in the workplace; and what plans she has to improve access to (i) employment opportunities and (ii) workplac
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 13 Mar 2025
- Target answer date
- 17 Mar 2025
- Answer
- 21 Mar 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
13 Mar 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she is taking to support more people with disabilities to (a) enter and (b) remain in the workplace; and what plans she has to improve access to (i) employment opportunities and (ii) workplac
17 Mar 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
21 Mar 2025
Answer published
Appropriate work is generally good for health and wellbeing, so we want everyone to get work and get on in work, whoever they are and wherever they live. Disabled people and people with health conditions are a diverse group so access to the right work and...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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