Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, in relation to Answer of 14 November 2022 Question 80893 on occupational health, when he plans to start financial incentive and market navigation support for small and medium-sized enterprises and self-employed people.

As referenced in the answer to Question 80893, The Government has committed to testing a financial incentive and market navigation support scheme to gather evidence on whether this is effective in increasing access to OH for SMEs and self-employed people. We have begun to test the concepts in a prototyping phase, and subject to test findings, funding and approvals, we expect to test the end-to-end service at small scale in 2023.