Question follow-through · 64272
Social Security Benefits: Advisory Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether her Department has had discussions with the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care on the potential merits of integrating health and social care services with access to welfare advice.
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 1 Jul 2025
- Target answer date
- 3 Jul 2025
- Answer
- 8 Jul 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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More questions by this MP on Health and care
- Social Security Benefits: Terminal Illnesses · 10 Oct 2025
- Social Security Benefits: Terminal Illnesses · 10 Oct 2025
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Votes on this topic
- Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: Second Reading · 11 Sept 2026
- Health Bill: Report Stage: Amendment 1 · 8 Sept 2026
- Health Bill: Report Stage: New Clause 143 · 8 Sept 2026
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Recorded timeline
1 Jul 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether her Department has had discussions with the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care on the potential merits of integrating health and social care services with access to welfare advice.
3 Jul 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
8 Jul 2025
Answer published
As announced in the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions’ statement on Welfare Reform on 30 June, we are investing an additional £300 million over the next 3 years, enabling us to go further and faster on our new planned investment in work, health and...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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