Question follow-through · 48833
Employment Schemes
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she is taking to help long-term unemployed back into work.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 28 Apr 2025
- Target answer date
- 30 Apr 2025
- Answer
- 7 May 2025 · 9 calendar days after tabling
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- Taxation (Energy and Vehicles) Bill Committee: New Clause 5 · 1 Jul 2026
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Recorded timeline
28 Apr 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she is taking to help long-term unemployed back into work.
30 Apr 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
7 May 2025
Answer published
The Get Britain Working White Paper set out the biggest reforms to employment support for a generation to support our ambition to achieve an 80% employment rate. The Department for Work and Pensions will shift from being a department for employment suppor...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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