Question follow-through · 50878
ME/CFS: Occupational Health
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department plans to increase support for people with myalgic encephalomyelitis who are employed.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 8 May 2025
- Target answer date
- 12 May 2025
- Answer
- 13 May 2025 · 5 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
- Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: Second Reading · 11 Sept 2026
- Health Bill: Report Stage: Amendment 1 · 8 Sept 2026
- Health Bill: Report Stage: New Clause 143 · 8 Sept 2026
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Recorded timeline
8 May 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department plans to increase support for people with myalgic encephalomyelitis who are employed.
12 May 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
13 May 2025
Answer published
Occupational health as advisory support has a broad remit. It plays an important role in supporting employers to maintain and promote employee health and wellbeing through assessments of fitness for work, advice about reasonable adjustments, work ability ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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