Question follow-through · 100008
Employment: Yeovil
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps he is taking to improve local job opportunities for people in Yeovil constituency.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 15 Dec 2025
- Target answer date
- 17 Dec 2025
- Answer
- 23 Dec 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
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- Taxation (Energy and Vehicles) Bill Committee: New Clause 5 · 1 Jul 2026
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Recorded timeline
15 Dec 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps he is taking to improve local job opportunities for people in Yeovil constituency.
17 Dec 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
23 Dec 2025
Answer published
Through our Get Britain Working Strategy, we are reforming employment, health, and skills support to tackle economic inactivity, support people into good work, and create an inclusive, thriving labour market. This means recognising that no local labour ma...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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