Question follow-through · 41386
Social Security Benefits: Reform
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of her Department's proposed welfare reforms on levels of economic inactivity.
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 26 Mar 2025
- Target answer date
- 28 Mar 2025
- Answer
- 3 Apr 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
26 Mar 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of her Department's proposed welfare reforms on levels of economic inactivity.
28 Mar 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
3 Apr 2025
Answer published
No estimate has yet been made. As announced in the Green Paper, we will build towards a guarantee of personalised employment, health and skills support for anyone on out of work benefits with a work-limiting health condition or disability who wants it. Ca...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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