Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps the Government will take to encourage healthy workplaces for people with long term conditions as part of the renewed focus on encouraging people to return to work.

It is important that workplaces enable disabled people and people with health conditions to stay in and succeed at work. The Government works with employers nationally to achieve this.

A range of support is available and includes:

- increasing access to occupational health, including the testing of financial incentives for small and medium-sized enterprises and the self-employed;

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

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

- the Mental Health and Productivity Pilot, providing insight into how to use mental health and wellbeing interventions in the workplace; and

- Non-statutory guidance providing advice on accessibility, communication, occupational health support, inclusivity, and sickness support.