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Poverty: Disability |
| Question ID: |
1785989 |
| UIN: |
39328 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-03-18 |
| Asking Member ID: |
5359 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Neil Duncan-Jordan
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
Neil Duncan-Jordan
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to her Department's green paper Pathways to work: reforming benefits and support to get Britain working, published on 18 March 2025, what assessment she has made of the potential impact o |
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false |
| Date of holding answer: |
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| Date answered: |
2025-03-24 |
| Date answer corrected: |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
163 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Sir Stephen Timms
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| Answering Member handle: |
stephenctimms
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@stephenctimms
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| Answer text: |
The latest available statistics show that full-time work substantially reduces the chances of poverty. In 2022/23, working age adults living in families where no adults work were around 6 times more likely to be in relative poverty after housing costs, th... |
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| Answering body ID: |
29 |
| Answering body name: |
Department for Work and Pensions |
| Tweeted: |
true |