Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to support adults with cerebral palsy to remain economically active.

A range of Government initiatives are supporting disabled people and people with health conditions, including cerebral palsy, to start, stay, and succeed in work. These include:

- Employment Advice in NHS Talking Therapies, which combines psychological treatment and employment support for people with mental health conditions;

- increasing Work Coach support in Jobcentres for people with health conditions receiving Universal Credit or Employment Support Allowance;

- Disability Employment Advisers in Jobcentres offering advice and expertise on how to help disabled people and people with health conditions into work;

- the Work and Health Programme and Intensive Personalised Employment Support, providing tailored and personalised support for participants;

- access to Work grants towards extra costs of working beyond standard reasonable adjustments;

- Disability Confident encouraging employers to think differently about disability and health, and to take positive action to address the issues employees face in the workplace; and

- the Information and Advice Service providing better integrated and tailored guidance on supporting and managing health and disability in the workplace.