Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Gavin Shuker and Sarah Newton

Monday 26th March 2018 Commons Chamber

[The Minister for Disabled People, Health and Work (Sarah Newton)]

I congratulate my hon. Friend on his work and his campaigning on this issue. He is himself a Disability Confident employer, as are all Work and Pensions Ministers. Some 70 Members of Parliament have now taken this step, and I really encourage all those who have not done so to come along to one of our excellent Disability Confident events so that they will have the confidence to employ people with disabilities and health conditions.

[Mr Gavin Shuker (Luton South) (Lab/Co-op)]

T7. When I was a child in receipt of free school meals, the majority of my peers growing up in poverty were in workless households. That is no longer the situation: today, the majority have one parent in work. Will the Secretary of State explain why?