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registered interest
date	17/01/2022
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Employment Schemes: Disability
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to Part One of the National Disability Strategy published on 28 July 2021, what progress her Department has made towards exploring offering earlier and more intensive back-to-work support in jobcentres for people before their work capability assessment.
tabling member constituency	Lewisham, Deptford
tabling member printed	Vicky Foxcroft
uin	105656
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/01/2022 answer text <p>The Government is committed to seeing one million more disabled people in work between 2017 and 2027 and reducing the disability employment gap. The disability employment gap</p><p>has closed by around 5 percentage points since 2013 (when the current way of measuring disability began) and in the last four years, the number of disabled people in employment has increased by 850,000. We are committed to doing more, building on this good progress, to support disabled people and people with health conditions to start, stay and succeed in work, where it is right for them.</p><p> </p><p>We know that to be truly effective in supporting disabled people, our jobcentres must offer a range of help. As outlined in both the recent Shaping Future Support: The Health and Disability Green Paper and the National Disability Strategy, this includes exploring offering earlier and more intensive back-to-work support in jobcentres for people before their work capability assessment.</p><p> </p><p>This builds on support already available to people from a work coach before their work capability assessment. All new claimants are given Day 1 interventions by a dedicated work coach to support them back to work. DWP has also introduced the new approach to conditionality, called Tailoring Up. For disabled people and people with health conditions, this aims to enable an honest and open conversation between a person and their work coach about what they can do.</p><p> </p><p>The aim is to build commitment to move towards work and into work where possible. Work coaches can start from a point of no mandatory requirements and agree with the person the voluntary steps the person will take, bringing in mandatory requirements as and when it is appropriate for the individual.</p><p> </p><p>The Autumn Budget announced an additional £156 million over the Spending Review 2021 period to provide job finding support for disabled people, with a focus on additional support from work coaches In Jobcentres. We are developing plans for how to further support people with health conditions and disabled people towards and into work, including through increased work coach support, building on the Tailoring Up approach that is already available.</p> answering member constituency Norwich North answering member printed Chloe Smith question first answered 25/01/2022 11:47:42 answering member 1609 label Biography information for Chloe Smith
tabling member	4491 label Biography information for Vicky Foxcroft

1380226

registered interest
date	19/11/2021
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Employment Schemes: Disability
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the £156 million committed in the Autumn Budget and Spending Review 2021 to provide job finding support for disabled people, what services that funding will support, in addition to the work coaches referenced in part 4.99 of that document.
tabling member constituency	Bath
tabling member printed	Wera Hobhouse
uin	78481
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/11/2021 answer text <p>The Government is committed to seeing one million more disabled people in work between 2017 and 2027 and reducing the disability employment gap. The disability employment gap</p><p>has closed by around 5 percentage points since 2013 (the earliest comparable date, when the current way of measuring disability began) and in the last four years, the number of disabled people in employment has increased by 850,000. This is good progress, however, we know we need to go further to help more disabled people and people with health conditions start, stay and succeed in work, where it is right for them.</p><p> </p><p>We have committed in both the recent Shaping Future Support: The Health and Disability Green Paper and the National Disability Strategy, to continue to improve employment support for disabled people and people with health conditions to help support more people to move towards and into work. We are reviewing Green Paper responses now and will come forward with a White Paper next year.</p><p> </p><p>The Spending Review committed £339 million per year for the continued funding of existing disability employment programmes such as the Access to Work scheme and the Work and Health programme.</p><p> </p><p>In addition to this, £156 million has been agreed over the Spending Review 2021 period to provide job finding support for disabled people, with a focus on additional work coaches. We are continuing to develop detailed plans for a range of disability employment support to best support disabled people towards and into work across the Spending Review period.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Norwich North answering member printed Chloe Smith grouped question UIN 78482 question first answered 30/11/2021 17:33:11 answering member 1609 label Biography information for Chloe Smith
tabling member	4602 label Biography information for Wera Hobhouse

1380227

registered interest
date	19/11/2021
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Employment Schemes: Disability
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to (a) the disability employment gap remaining at 28.7 percentage points and (b) the Leonard Cheshire research finding that 69 per cent of disabled people have had their work impacted by covid-19, whether he has made a recent assessment of the need for additional funding to support disabled people entering and remaining in work.
tabling member constituency	Bath
tabling member printed	Wera Hobhouse
uin	78482
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/11/2021 answer text <p>The Government is committed to seeing one million more disabled people in work between 2017 and 2027 and reducing the disability employment gap. The disability employment gap</p><p>has closed by around 5 percentage points since 2013 (the earliest comparable date, when the current way of measuring disability began) and in the last four years, the number of disabled people in employment has increased by 850,000. This is good progress, however, we know we need to go further to help more disabled people and people with health conditions start, stay and succeed in work, where it is right for them.</p><p> </p><p>We have committed in both the recent Shaping Future Support: The Health and Disability Green Paper and the National Disability Strategy, to continue to improve employment support for disabled people and people with health conditions to help support more people to move towards and into work. We are reviewing Green Paper responses now and will come forward with a White Paper next year.</p><p> </p><p>The Spending Review committed £339 million per year for the continued funding of existing disability employment programmes such as the Access to Work scheme and the Work and Health programme.</p><p> </p><p>In addition to this, £156 million has been agreed over the Spending Review 2021 period to provide job finding support for disabled people, with a focus on additional work coaches. We are continuing to develop detailed plans for a range of disability employment support to best support disabled people towards and into work across the Spending Review period.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Norwich North answering member printed Chloe Smith grouped question UIN 78481 question first answered 30/11/2021 17:33:11 answering member 1609 label Biography information for Chloe Smith
tabling member	4602 label Biography information for Wera Hobhouse

1379581

registered interest
date	17/11/2021
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Employment Schemes: Disability
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to Second Report of Session 2021–22, Disability employment gap, published on 30 July 2021, if she will accept the conclusions and recommendations of that Committee that (a) her Department carry out a radical overhaul of its approach to employment support for disabled people and (b) funding for the Work and Health Programme be devolved.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
uin	76676
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/11/2021 answer text <p>The Government sent our response to the committee on 5 November 2021, who subsequently published the response on 22 November 2021.</p><p><a href="https://committees.parliament.uk/publications/7913/documents/81987/default/" target="_blank">Disability employment gap: Government Response to the Committee’s Second Report of Session 2021–22 (parliament.uk)</a></p> answering member constituency Norwich North answering member printed Chloe Smith question first answered 23/11/2021 13:34:24 answering member 1609 label Biography information for Chloe Smith previous answer version 33910 answering member constituency Norwich North answering member printed Chloe Smith answering member 1609 label Biography information for Chloe Smith
tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah