Question follow-through · 50769
Pathways to Work: Poverty
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of the Pathways to Work Green Paper on the number of people in poverty in each of the next five years.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 7 May 2025
- Target answer date
- 12 May 2025
- Answer
- 19 May 2025 · 12 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
7 May 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of the Pathways to Work Green Paper on the number of people in poverty in each of the next five years.
12 May 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
19 May 2025
Answer published
An assessment of the potential impact of the Pathways to Work Green Paper on the number of people in poverty in each of the next five years is not yet available.The government's impact assessment regarding the Pathways to Work Green Paper is available her...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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