Question follow-through · 49923
Department for Work and Pensions: Families
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether her Department uses the family test; and what her Department's policy is on the publication of family test impact assessments.
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 2 May 2025
- Target answer date
- 12 May 2025
- Answer
- 12 May 2025 · 10 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
2 May 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether her Department uses the family test; and what her Department's policy is on the publication of family test impact assessments.
12 May 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
12 May 2025
Answer published
DWP uses the Family Test during policy development and promotes its use across government.Family Test assessments are not routinely published by DWP. Decisions on the publication of Family Test assessments fall within the responsibility of each Government...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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