Question follow-through · 47371
Social Security Benefits: Reform
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether people receiving disability benefits for Ménière's disease will be exempt from her proposed reforms to the benefits system.
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 23 Apr 2025
- Target answer date
- 25 Apr 2025
- Answer
- 1 May 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
23 Apr 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether people receiving disability benefits for Ménière's disease will be exempt from her proposed reforms to the benefits system.
25 Apr 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
1 May 2025
Answer published
The Pathways to Work Green Paper set out a broad package of reforms to health and disability benefits and employment support. The functional impact and severity of a condition can significantly vary across individuals, so we are not planning for specific ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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