Improving Lives: Green Paper Debate

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Department: Department for Work and Pensions

Improving Lives: Green Paper

Lord Fink Excerpts
Monday 31st October 2016

(8 years ago)

Lords Chamber
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Lord Freud Portrait Lord Freud
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I very much regret having to say that we are not in a position to look again at that measure. The WRAG was not doing what it was designed to do. What we are now looking at in the Green Paper is how to separate the financial aspects of the benefit from the support that people require.

Lord Fink Portrait Lord Fink (Con)
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My Lords, what is my noble friend the Minister doing to help employers take on disabled people?

Lord Freud Portrait Lord Freud
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It is clear that many people who happen to have a disability have immense talents and valuable skills, which employers should want to tap; they will miss out if they do not. We already offer some support—for instance, Access to Work—and we are increasing that spending. The consultation will ask employers what they need from government to help them recruit and train disabled people.