Question follow-through · 45931
Pathways to Work: Public Consultation
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether she plans to widen the scope of the consultation for the Pathways to Work: Reforming Benefits and Support to Get Britain Working Green Paper, published on 18 March 2025.
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 17 Apr 2025
- Target answer date
- 23 Apr 2025
- Answer
- 28 Apr 2025 · 11 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
17 Apr 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether she plans to widen the scope of the consultation for the Pathways to Work: Reforming Benefits and Support to Get Britain Working Green Paper, published on 18 March 2025.
23 Apr 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
28 Apr 2025
Answer published
The Pathways to Work Green Paper set out our plans and proposals for reform to health and disability benefits and employment support. This includes some urgently needed reforms to PIP eligibility and UC rates that are not subject to consultation but on wh...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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