Employment Bill Debate
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Lord Touhig
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(2 years, 8 months ago)
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Lord Callanan (Con)
I certainly know the problems that my noble friend is identifying with IR35 and will communicate them to HMRC and the Treasury.
Lord Touhig (Lab)
My Lords, if you are disabled you are 30% less likely to have a job than if you are able bodied. In London alone, there are 400,000 unemployed disabled people. In some London boroughs, just one in four disabled people has a job. What will the Government be doing, if they have no Bill, to address this crisis among people with disabilities?
Lord Callanan (Con)
We have an excellent record for job creation in this country, and our unemployment rates are much lower than many others on the European mainland, but I totally accept the point the noble Lord is making. We must all redouble our efforts to make sure that those who are disabled get the same opportunities to work as the rest of us do.