Access to Jobs: Disabled People
Debate between Christopher Chope and Natalie McGarry(8 years, 10 months ago)
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Natalie McGarry (Glasgow East) (Ind)
I congratulate the hon. Gentleman on securing the debate.
My constituent worked in Remploy, as Margaret did, under a skilled seamstress. She has learning disabilities and although she has worked since, it has been in wholly unsuitable jobs. The ESA group to which she has returned is the WRAG, and the concern for people such as my constituent is the disincentive to go to work because of cuts for new claimants in the WRAG. Does the hon. Gentleman agree that that threat of having less work will not promote work for people such as my constituent and Margaret? When things go wrong and their disabilities perhaps prevent them from being able to carry out their employment—
Mr Christopher Chope (in the Chair)
Order. I understood the hon. Lady to be making an intervention, rather than a speech.