Question follow-through · 71365
Employment: Chronic Illnesses and Disability
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what support is available to help people with long-term health conditions return to work in high-deprivation areas.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 29 Aug 2025
- Target answer date
- 2 Sept 2025
- Answer
- 4 Sept 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
29 Aug 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what support is available to help people with long-term health conditions return to work in high-deprivation areas.
2 Sept 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
4 Sept 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. Backed by £240 million investment, the Get Britain Working White Paper launched last November will drive for...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Hospitality Industry: Apprentices
10 Oct 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps he is taking to increase apprenticeship opportunities in the hospitality sector.
Hospitality Industry: Skilled Workers
10 Oct 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of skills shortages in the hospitality sector.
Hospitality Industry: Apprentices
10 Oct 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent assessment he has made of trends in the level of uptake of hospitality-related apprenticeships.
Hospitality Industry: Apprentices and Training
10 Oct 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what support is available to help small hospitality businesses engage with (a) apprenticeship and (b) training schemes.
Hospitality Industry: Qualifications
10 Oct 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what discussions he has had with industry representatives on ensuring qualifications meet the needs of hospitality businesses.
Hospitality Industry: Training
10 Oct 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of government-funded skills programmes on staffing levels in hospitality.
Older Workers: Hospitality Industry
14 Oct 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she is taking to encourage retraining into hospitality careers for older workers.
Personal Independence Payment
4 Dec 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent estimate his Department has made of the average processing time for Personal Independence Payment claims in the latest three-month period.
Work Capability Assessment
4 Dec 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps the Department is taking to reduce the backlog of Work Capability Assessments and improve the speed of decision making.
Universal Credit: Appeals
4 Dec 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate his Department has made of the number of Universal Credit claimants awaiting mandatory reconsideration decisions as of the most recent month for which information is available.
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Jobcentres: Staff
4 Dec 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent assessment the Department has made of the adequacy of Jobcentre staffing levels to support claimants with complex needs.