Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what plans her Department has to increase employment opportunities for people with disabilities.

The Government is committed to reducing the disability employment gap and seeing a million more disabled people in work by 2027.

We help disabled people return to and stay in work through programmes including the Work and Health Programme, the new Intensive Personalised Employment Support Programme, Access to Work and Disability Confident.

There were 4.2 million working age disabled people in employment in the UK in Q3 2019. This was an increase of 354,000 since last year (Q3 2018), and an overall increase of 1.3 million since Q3 2013, the earliest comparable figure.

We will publish a National Strategy for Disabled People before the end of 2020. This will look at ways to improve the benefits system, opportunities and access for disabled people in terms of housing, education, transport and jobs