Question follow-through · 64704
Employment: Arthritis
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what support her Department has provided to help people with arthritis to (a) remain in and (b) return to work.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 2 Jul 2025
- Target answer date
- 4 Jul 2025
- Answer
- 9 Jul 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
2 Jul 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what support her Department has provided to help people with arthritis to (a) remain in and (b) return to work.
4 Jul 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
9 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, including arthritis, are a diverse group so access to the...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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