Oral Answers to Questions

Kemi Badenoch Excerpts

Monday 9th October 2017 Commons Chamber

[Penny Mordaunt]

There are things that we can do to improve the assessment process dramatically and also, more critically, to prevent people from having to go through those assessments. The thrust of the health and work consultation paper that we issued this year is to bring about early intervention in healthcare and to use healthcare information to populate the welfare system, and that is what we are trying to do.

[Mrs Kemi Badenoch (Saffron Walden) (Con)]

What steps are the Government taking to use technology to help their equality agenda, specifically in respect of disabilities?

[Penny Mordaunt]

We have just launched a platform called OpenLab, which brings together those working in technology and disability, and focuses primarily on accessibility issues. It will enable us to publicise problems that we are trying to solve, but will also enable that community to work together to arrive at solutions faster.