Question follow-through · 40975

Employment and Support Allowance: Unemployment Insurance

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the Pathways to Work: Reforming Benefits and Support to Get Britain Working Green Paper, published on 18 March 2025, what estimate she has made of number of claimants receiving contrib

answeredDepartment for Work and Pensions

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Department for Work and Pensions
Tabled
24 Mar 2025
Target answer date
31 Mar 2025
Answer
31 Mar 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling

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  1. 24 Mar 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the Pathways to Work: Reforming Benefits and Support to Get Britain Working Green Paper, published on 18 March 2025, what estimate she has made of number of claimants receiving contrib

  2. 31 Mar 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 31 Mar 2025

    Answer published

    Information on the impacts of the Pathways to Work Green Paper will be published in due course, with some information published here alongside the Spring Statement. A further programme of analysis to support development of the proposals in the Green Paper...

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