Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask Her Majesty's Government what percentage of UK (1) private, and (2) public, sector employers are currently signed up to Disability Confident; and what percentage of (a) private, and (b) public, sector employers they estimate will be signed up by the end of 2020.

As at 31 March 2020, 17,869 employers had signed up to Disability Confident (DC). This represents 1 per cent of UK employers in 2019, of which there are estimated to be 1.329 million (Business population estimates 2019).

The information requested on private and public sector employers is not readily available and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost.

In the current climate it is not possible to estimate the number of DC employers at the end of 2020.