Question follow-through · 42080

Social Security Benefits: Reform

To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, how many people in Wales will be impacted by welfare reform.

answeredWales Office

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Answering body: Wales Office
Tabled: 27 Mar 2025
Target answer date: 31 Mar 2025
Answer: 3 Apr 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

27 Mar 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, how many people in Wales will be impacted by welfare reform.
31 Mar 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
3 Apr 2025
Answer published
Information on the impacts of the Pathways to Work Green Paper will be published in due course, with some information already published alongside the Spring Statement. These publications can be found here Pathways to Work: Reforming Benefits and Support t...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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