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Written Question
Employment: Disability
Thursday 26th February 2015

Asked by: Lord Blunkett (Labour - Life peer)

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when he plans to respond to the second report from the Work and Pensions Committee, Improving access to work for disabled people, HC481.

Answered by Lord Harper

I will write to Dame Anne Begg MP, Chair of the Work and Pensions Select Committee, in early March 2015.


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