Question follow-through · 63795

Employment: Women

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she is taking to support unemployed women back in to work.

answeredDepartment for Work and Pensions

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Answering body
Department for Work and Pensions
Tabled
30 Jun 2025
Target answer date
2 Jul 2025
Answer
8 Jul 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 30 Jun 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she is taking to support unemployed women back in to work.

  2. 2 Jul 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 8 Jul 2025

    Answer published

    Tackling child poverty and reaching an 80% employment rate are key Government objectives. The Get Britain Working White Paper outlines plans to transform the jobs and careers service into a more inclusive, skills-focused system that helps people find and ...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

Later records

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