Question follow-through · 56983
Disability: Cost of Living
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of changes in the cost of living on disabled people with complex needs.
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 3 Jun 2025
- Target answer date
- 5 Jun 2025
- Answer
- 12 Jun 2025 · 9 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
3 Jun 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of changes in the cost of living on disabled people with complex needs.
5 Jun 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
12 Jun 2025
Answer published
We know disabled people face extra costs every day and this has been exacerbated by the increased cost of living. The Disability Unit has worked to understand and assess the full impact of the cost of living on disabled people, across a range of sectors, ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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