Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will estimate the number of people in the workforce who have multiple sclerosis; and if he will make a statement.

Our measure of disability employment by condition type is based on data from the Labour Force Survey. Whilst this survey has a large sample size, it does not collect enough data on every specific condition to provide robust estimates on the number of working age adults who have multiple sclerosis on its own. Latest available figures report that in Q2 2016 around 146,000 of the disabled working age adults who have progressive illnesses that include multiple sclerosis (but also cancer, symptomatic HIV, Parkinson’s disease and muscular dystrophy) are in employment.