Question follow-through · 49218
Social Security Benefits: Medical Examinations
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the Green Paper entitled Pathways to Work: Reforming Benefits and Support to Get Britain Working Green Paper, published on 18 March 2025, if she will take steps to prevent people with
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 29 Apr 2025
- Target answer date
- 1 May 2025
- Answer
- 6 May 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
29 Apr 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the Green Paper entitled Pathways to Work: Reforming Benefits and Support to Get Britain Working Green Paper, published on 18 March 2025, if she will take steps to prevent people with
1 May 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
6 May 2025
Answer published
Our wide-ranging package of reforms to health and disability benefits, set out in the Pathways to Work Green Paper, will improve experiences of the system for those who need it. The functional impact and severity of a condition can significantly vary acro...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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