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Social Security Benefits: Disability

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made with the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care of the potential implications of changes to disability benefits on health and social care services.

answeredDepartment for Work and Pensions

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Answering body
Department for Work and Pensions
Tabled
18 Mar 2025
Target answer date
20 Mar 2025
Answer
24 Mar 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 18 Mar 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made with the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care of the potential implications of changes to disability benefits on health and social care services.

  2. 20 Mar 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 24 Mar 2025

    Answer published

    We are investing almost £26 billion of extra funding for the Health and Social Care System so people can get the treatment they need to get back to work instead of being stuck on waiting lists, delivering over 2 million extra appointments 7 months ahead o...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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Employment: Visual Impairment

24 Mar 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department is taking to support visually impaired people in the workplace.

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Migraines: Employment

1 Apr 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department is taking to raise awareness of the impact of migraines in the workplace.

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Personal Independence Payment: Telephone Services

8 Apr 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department is taking to reduce call waiting times on the PIP helpline.

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Universal Credit

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Social Security Benefits: Disability

2 Jun 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that Disability Assessors who conduct assessments on the telephone are trained to appropriately interact with people who find phone calls difficult or stres

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Jobcentres: Vacancies

17 Jun 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of allowing businesses to contact their local Jobcentre Plus directly to advertise vacancies.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Jobcentres: Vacancies

18 Jun 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether her Department has made a recent assessment of the adequacy of the processes for businesses to advertise vacancies through Jobcentre Plus.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Access to Work Programme: Hearing Impairment

15 Jul 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of changes in the level of funded support through Access to Work on deaf professionals who require full-time BSL interpreters.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Children: Maintenance

15 Jul 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department has taken to help prevent receiving parents from limiting access of children to those parents paying child maintenance in order to receive higher payments.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Universal Credit

29 Aug 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department is taking to help support Universal Credit claimants during the review process.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Universal Credit

29 Aug 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what measures are in place to ensure that claimants can effectively challenge Universal Credit Reviews.