Question follow-through · 43368
Access to Work Programme: Small Businesses
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of making access to work schemes the responsibility of employers on small and medium-sized businesses.
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 1 Apr 2025
- Target answer date
- 3 Apr 2025
- Answer
- 8 Apr 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
1 Apr 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of making access to work schemes the responsibility of employers on small and medium-sized businesses.
3 Apr 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
8 Apr 2025
Answer published
As outlined in the Pathways to Work Green Paper published on 18 March, we need to get the balance right between supporting employers to understand and provide reasonable adjustments as part of their legal duties, and interventions that go beyond this this...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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