Question follow-through · 92529
Connect to Work
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether he will assess the potential merits of allowing local authorities to roll over unspent Connect to Work funding into the following year.
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 19 Nov 2025
- Target answer date
- 24 Nov 2025
- Answer
- 26 Nov 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
19 Nov 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether he will assess the potential merits of allowing local authorities to roll over unspent Connect to Work funding into the following year.
24 Nov 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
26 Nov 2025
Answer published
Expenditure on Connect to Work is annualised in line with standard practice for managing public funds. To retain funding controls, my Department cannot automatically carry forward underspends into future years. As part of the Connect to Work Delivery Plan...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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