Question follow-through · 74528
Special Educational Needs
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate she has made of the number of parents who are unable to take up or remain in employment because they have children with special educational needs and disabilities that do not have access a
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 2 Sept 2025
- Target answer date
- 8 Sept 2025
- Answer
- 10 Sept 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
2 Sept 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate she has made of the number of parents who are unable to take up or remain in employment because they have children with special educational needs and disabilities that do not have access a
8 Sept 2025
Target answer date
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10 Sept 2025
Answer published
Good work is generally good for health and wellbeing and can significantly reduce the chances of people falling into poverty, so we want everyone to get work and get on in work, whoever they are and wherever they live. Our Get Britain Working White Paper,...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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