Question follow-through · 12737
Employment Schemes: Older People
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps his Department is taking to apply the findings of recent evaluations of employment support for people aged 50 and over to future programme design.
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 24 Jun 2026
- Target answer date
- 29 Jun 2026
- Answer
- 1 Jul 2026 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
24 Jun 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps his Department is taking to apply the findings of recent evaluations of employment support for people aged 50 and over to future programme design.
29 Jun 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
1 Jul 2026
Answer published
Work helps everyone play active and fulfilling roles in society while building financial security for retirement, and this government recognises the wealth of skills and experiences that midlife workers bring both to the workplace and the economy. DWP pol...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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Department for Work and Pensions: Members
10 Jul 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many MP surgeries have Ministers in his Department had with MPs (a) in the period July 2024 to January 2025 and (b) since January 2025.