Question follow-through · 56365
Unemployment Insurance
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to her Department's Green Paper entitled Pathways to Work, published on 18 May 2025, what estimate she has made of the number of claimants currently in receipt of contributory Employment
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 2 Jun 2025
- Target answer date
- 4 Jun 2025
- Answer
- 9 Jun 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
2 Jun 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to her Department's Green Paper entitled Pathways to Work, published on 18 May 2025, what estimate she has made of the number of claimants currently in receipt of contributory Employment
4 Jun 2025
Target answer date
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9 Jun 2025
Answer published
The Department is currently consulting on a proposed Unemployment Insurance. The consultation closes on 30 June 2025. No decisions have yet been made about transitioning existing claimants of NS ESA and NS JSA to the proposed Unemployment Insurance and th...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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