Employment: Disability

(asked on 7th September 2017) - View Source

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether the Government plans to support one million more people with disabilities into employment over the next 10 years.


Answered by
Penny Mordaunt Portrait
Penny Mordaunt
Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons
This question was answered on 18th September 2017

The Government is committed to improving employment outcomes for disabled people. The manifesto commitment underpins this with a clear and time-bound goal - to see 1 million more disabled people into work over the next 10 years.

We know that there is much more that needs to be done, so that everyone who can work is given the right support and opportunities to do so.

That is why we published Improving Lives; the Work, Health and Disability Green Paper, which set out the action we plan to take and consulted on proposals for wider reform. We will respond to the consultation and set out our plans in due course.

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