Question follow-through · 62379
Employment: Chronic Illnesses and Disability
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department has taken to enable the employment of (a) disabled people and (b) people with long-term health conditions.
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 24 Jun 2025
- Target answer date
- 30 Jun 2025
- Answer
- 3 Jul 2025 · 9 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
24 Jun 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department has taken to enable the employment of (a) disabled people and (b) people with long-term health conditions.
30 Jun 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
3 Jul 2025
Answer published
Good work is generally good for health and wellbeing, so we want everyone to get work and get on in work, whoever they are and wherever they live. Disabled people and people with health conditions are a diverse group so access to the right work and health...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Personal Independence Payment
25 Jun 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of her proposed reforms to PIP on people who (a) travel to work and (b) require (i) practical and (ii) mental health support at work.