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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

answeredDepartment for Work and Pensions

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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

  1. 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

  2. 17 Mar 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 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...

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