Question follow-through · 39082
Social Security Benefits: Reform
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if her Department will publish an equality impact assessment on reforms set out in the Pathways to Work: Reforming Benefits and Support to Get Britain Working Green Paper, published on 18 March 2025.
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 18 Mar 2025
- Target answer date
- 24 Mar 2025
- Answer
- 24 Mar 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
18 Mar 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if her Department will publish an equality impact assessment on reforms set out in the Pathways to Work: Reforming Benefits and Support to Get Britain Working Green Paper, published on 18 March 2025.
24 Mar 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
24 Mar 2025
Answer published
We will publish the equality analysis for measures included in the Spring Statement alongside the Spring Statement, with equality analysis for other reforms, where possible, following shortly after.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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