| Heading: |
Elections: Disability |
| Question ID: |
1744248 |
| UIN: |
15901 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2024-11-25 |
| Asking Member ID: |
5041 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Shaun Davies
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| Asking Member handle: |
ShaunDaviesMP
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
@ShaunDaviesMP
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of establishing a permanent Access to Elected Office fund for disabled election candidates. |
| Is named day: |
true |
| Date of holding answer: |
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| Date answered: |
2024-12-02 |
| 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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| Correcting Member ID: |
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| Correcting Member display name: |
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| Correcting Member handle: |
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| Correcting Member Twitter reference: |
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| Answer text: |
It is the Government’s ambition to see more disabled people in public office. The Government has been clear that it will champion disabled people's rights, and work closely with them so that disabled people's voices and views are at the heart of all we do... |
| Original answer text: |
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| Comparable answer text: |
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| Answering body ID: |
29 |
| Answering body name: |
Department for Work and Pensions |
| Tweeted: |
true |