Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Penny Mordaunt and Kemi Badenoch

Thursday 28th June 2018 Commons Chamber

[Penny Mordaunt]

The DWP takes such matters very seriously and will often put in a bespoke plan, particularly if there are a large number of redundancies in one location. A lot of work has been going on in the DWP to ensure that that happens across all sectors. I am sure that the Under-Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, my hon. Friend the Member for North West Hampshire (Kit Malthouse), has heard the hon. Lady’s question and will take that back to the Department.

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

T2. Does the Minister agree that making upskirting a specific criminal offence, punishable by up to two years’ imprisonment, and closing this legal loophole will better protect victims and increase convictions?

Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Penny Mordaunt and Kemi Badenoch

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.