Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between David Mundell and Stephen Timms

Monday 3rd February 2025 Commons Chamber

[Sir Stephen Timms]

I commend the resilience of my hon. Friend. Before Christmas, I spoke at a report launch with the charity Working with Cancer, which focuses on exactly the issue she has raised. She is right: employers have a key role in supporting people with cancer to continue to thrive in work, and the “Keep Britain Working” review will engage with people with lived experience as well as employers.

[David Mundell (Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale) (Con)]

It is now nine years since the Scotland Act 2016 transferred a swathe of welfare powers to the Scottish Government. Are Ministers in a position to give a finite date by which the Scottish Government will actually have taken on all those powers and responsibilities? That is still not the case.