Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the Government’s response to Recommendation 57 (a) to the report by the UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities’ Concluding Observations, what steps the Government is taking to ensure the regular publication of data on the disability pay gap.

In the November 2017 publication Improving Lives: the Future of Work, Health and Disability, Government committed to publishing annual statistical updates to monitor progress towards our goal to see 1 million more disabled people in work. These will be published later this year.

The Government is currently developing further plans to consider transparency and reporting and details will be announced in due course.