Question follow-through · 73038

Occupational Health: Small Businesses

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she is taking to provide support for SMEs for occupational health programmes.

answeredDepartment for Work and Pensions

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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

  1. 29 Aug 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she is taking to provide support for SMEs for occupational health programmes.

  2. 2 Sept 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 4 Sept 2025

    Answer published

    The Government is committed to supporting people with their employment journey. Expert-led impartial advice, and interventions such as occupational health, can help employers provide appropriate and timely work-based support to manage their employees’ hea...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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