Question follow-through · 122100
Employment Schemes: Lone Parents
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what support is available through his Department and Jobcentre Plus to help single parents with childcare responsibilities find suitable part-time employment.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 19 Mar 2026
- Target answer date
- 23 Mar 2026
- Answer
- 27 Mar 2026 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
19 Mar 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what support is available through his Department and Jobcentre Plus to help single parents with childcare responsibilities find suitable part-time employment.
23 Mar 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
27 Mar 2026
Answer published
As set out in our Child Poverty Strategy, this Government is committed to boosting family incomes, supporting single parents and reducing the earnings gap within couple households by transforming employment support and removing barriers to work. The Gover...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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