Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps the Government is taking to give disabled people individual and tailored support and assistance to help them gain employment.

We are rolling out the new Work Coach model across Jobcentre Plus, with the focus on providing support tailored to the individual.

Unemployed disabled people may also receive support from a number of programmes, including:

• The Work Programme, which allows providers the flexibility to design an innovative and personalised approach to help participants back into sustained employment.

• Work Choice, which is a specialist disability employment programme that provides tailored support for disabled people who face barriers to finding and retaining work

• Specialist Employability Support (SES), which was launched in 2015, is a new national provision, designed to help unemployed disabled adults with the most complex needs to secure and sustain employment or self-employment.

Additionally, a disabled person who is applying for a new job or who needs support in their existing job may be eligible for Access to Work. This is a discretionary grant scheme for personalised in-work support. We are currently trialling the operation of personal budgets in Access to Work.