Question follow-through · 100449
Access to Work Programme
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps he is taking to ensure that any proposals to amend the Access to Work scheme are subject to consultation with disabled people and piloted before implementation.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 16 Dec 2025
- Target answer date
- 18 Dec 2025
- Answer
- 22 Dec 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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More questions by this MP on Social security and pensions
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Recorded timeline
16 Dec 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps he is taking to ensure that any proposals to amend the Access to Work scheme are subject to consultation with disabled people and piloted before implementation.
18 Dec 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
22 Dec 2025
Answer published
This Government values the input of disabled people and people with health conditions, their representative organisations and people that support them. That is why we brought forward the Green Paper and opened a public consultation. We are now carefully r...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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