Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions on incorporating disability employment policy in the wider industrial strategy.

Ministers and officials in the Department have regular discussions with the Department for Work and Pensions about a range of issues including disability employment, industrial strategy and the Taylor Review of Modern Working Practices.

Areas of collaboration between our Departments include those outlined in the publications “Fuller Working Lives: a partnership approach” and “Work, Health and Disability: Improving Lives”. Our Industrial Strategy’s core objective will be to boost earning power for everyone; an inclusive economic policy is vital in achieving this.