Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answers of 19 March 2020 to Questions 27016 and 27017, on Employment: Disability, whether her Department has (a) noted and (b) made use of Acas and the Equality and Human Rights Commission Guidance for employers to help them avoid claims for disability discrimination against them; whether her staff have been provided with the EHRC guidance entitled: A guide to help employees including disabled staff challenge discrimination at work; and whether her (i) Ministers and (ii) senior staff have been provided with EHRC guidance entitled A guide to help employers understand their responsibilities to provide disabled staff with additional support and workplace adjustments.

The Department has noted the ACAS and EHRC guidance available on those organisations’ websites; we promote and link to ACAS and EHRC resources from pages on our Intranet, together with a range of internal resources to support both staff and managers but we do not provide specific ACAS or EHRC documents to individual staff.

Our resources are designed to provide information, guidance and tools on the subjects of rights and responsibilities under the Equality Act, disability discrimination and workplace adjustments amongst others.

We make all of these resources, together with tailored support offered by the DWP Workplace Adjustment Team, available to everyone within the department to help them understand how disabled staff are best supported and the Departmental process to obtain workplace adjustments.