Question follow-through · 66495
Employment
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department is taking to encourage people who are not in employment but have the capability to work to re-enter the workforce.
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 9 Jul 2025
- Target answer date
- 11 Jul 2025
- Answer
- 16 Jul 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
9 Jul 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department is taking to encourage people who are not in employment but have the capability to work to re-enter the workforce.
11 Jul 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
16 Jul 2025
Answer published
Our Get Britain Working reforms, set out in a White Paper in November last year, will tackle economic inactivity, build a thriving labour market, and increase the number of people in work. By delivering the biggest reforms to employment support for a gene...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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