Question follow-through · 41955
Social Security Benefits: Long Term Unemployed People
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many benefit claimant households included people who have (a) not worked for (i) five, (ii) ten, (iii) twenty and (iv) more than twenty years and (b) never worked in each year since 2010 in the late
About this written question
A written question asks a government minister for information in writing. Parliament publishes the question and any answer.
- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 27 Mar 2025
- Target answer date
- 31 Mar 2025
- Answer
- 2 Apr 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling
Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.
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Recorded timeline
27 Mar 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many benefit claimant households included people who have (a) not worked for (i) five, (ii) ten, (iii) twenty and (iv) more than twenty years and (b) never worked in each year since 2010 in the late
31 Mar 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
2 Apr 2025
Answer published
The information requested is not readily available and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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