Question follow-through · 82730
Social Security Benefits: Veterans
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of introducing a centralised policy on the treatment of veterans’ compensation when assessing eligibility for welfare benefits.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 16 Oct 2025
- Target answer date
- 20 Oct 2025
- Answer
- 23 Oct 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.
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Recorded timeline
16 Oct 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of introducing a centralised policy on the treatment of veterans’ compensation when assessing eligibility for welfare benefits.
20 Oct 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
23 Oct 2025
Answer published
I refer the honourable member to the answer given on 8 July 63814
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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