Question follow-through · 23738

Department for Work and Pensions: Northern Ireland

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what plans he has to engage with the Northern Ireland Executive on his departmental priorities.

answeredDepartment for Work and Pensions

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Answering body
Department for Work and Pensions
Tabled
28 Aug 2026
Target answer date
2 Sept 2026
Answer
7 Sept 2026 · 10 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 28 Aug 2026

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what plans he has to engage with the Northern Ireland Executive on his departmental priorities.

  2. 2 Sept 2026

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 7 Sept 2026

    Answer published

    The Northern Ireland Act 1998 places a duty on Ministers in Great Britain and Northern Ireland to consult one another with a view to securing, to the extent agreed between them, single systems of social security, child support and pensions across the UK. ...

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