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.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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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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Recorded timeline

  1. 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.

  2. 12 May 2025

    Target answer date

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  3. 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 ...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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