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	registered interest
	date	20/10/2020
	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	Disability: Coronavirus
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the economic effect on disabled people of the covid-19 outbreak.
	tabling member constituency	Bolton South East
	tabling member printed	Yasmin Qureshi
	uin	106308
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/10/2020 answer text <p>The Government is committed to supporting disabled people affected by the COVID-19 outbreak. We continue to monitor the impact of COVID-19 on disabled people using existing and new data sources.</p><p>The Minister for Disabled People, Health and Work has had discussions with charities, disabled people's organisations and individuals to understand the range of experiences disabled people have had during the COVID-19 pandemic and to identify the support needed as lockdown restrictions are eased.</p><p>We are ensuring that disabled people continue to have access to disability benefits, food, medicines, essentials, accessible communications, updated guidance, including workplace and transport related guidance, as well as financial and other support during the COVID-19 outbreak.</p><p>The Government continues to provide disability employment support through initiatives such as Access to Work, Disability Confident, the Work and Health Programme, Intensive Personalised Employment Support, and other forms of support that disabled people need to retain, adapt and move into employment.</p><p>The Cabinet Office Disability Unit works with disability stakeholders and across Government Departments to ensure that the needs of disabled people are considered in the UK Government’s response to COVID-19. We are clear that consideration of equality impacts must be integral in all key policy decisions. All equality and discrimination laws and obligations continue to apply during the COVID-19 pandemic.</p><p>We will publish the National Strategy for Disabled People taking into account the impacts of the pandemic on disabled people. The Strategy will focus on the issues that disabled people say affect them the most in all aspects and phases of life.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 23/10/2020 12:16:45 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
	tabling member	3924 label Biography information for Yasmin Qureshi

1245384

	registered interest
	date	20/10/2020
	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	Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of reclassifying (a) myalgic encephalomyelitis and (b) chronic fatigue syndrome as a disability rather than as an illness for the purposes of (a) benefit assessments and (b) employee rights.
	tabling member constituency	Dudley North
	tabling member printed	Marco Longhi
	uin	107121
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/10/2020 answer text <p>Entitlement to health and disability-related benefits is determined by the functional effects of a person’s disability or health condition. Classification of the disability or condition is irrelevant for the purposes of benefit assessment.</p><p> </p><p>With regard to employee rights, though they are not automatically treated as a disability under the Equality Act 2010, people with myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME) and chronic fatigue syndrome can be treated as disabled depending upon the effect it has on their daily life. ME is specifically listed amongst “impairments with fluctuating or recurring effects” in the 2010 Act Guidance document</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fuploads%2Fsystem%2Fuploads%2Fattachment_data%2Ffile%2F85010%2Fdisability-definition.pdf&amp;data=04%7C01%7CParliamentary.PQ%40BEIS.gov.uk%7Ccdd0bfc8cf4f44755f7408d879b2943b%7Ccbac700502c143ebb497e6492d1b2dd8%7C0%7C0%7C637393155177888240%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&amp;sdata=ApKFu3ycZaD5iucy7oozavgIYuYC8i78pxAWfuA8ZUE%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/85010/disability-definition.pdf</a>.</p><p> </p><p>Any employment rights would then flow from being classified as disabled under the Equality Act 2010.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 27/10/2020 14:12:15 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
	tabling member	4789 label Biography information for Marco Longhi

1245106

	registered interest
	date	20/10/2020
	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	Care Workers: Sick Pay
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make it her policy to provide social care workers with full sick pay; what discussions she has had with the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care on providing full sick pay for social care workers; and if she will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
	tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
	uin	106311
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/10/2020 answer text <p>We want to ensure that social care workers who are unwell or self-isolating because of Covid-19 do not lose out financially because they are doing the right thing. In May, we announced an Adult Social Care Infection Control Fund, to be used on measures such as helping maintain the normal wages of social care staff who may need to self-isolate. This has now been extended until March 2021, meaning we have now ring-fenced over £1.1bn to support social care providers.</p><p> </p><p>The Infection Control Fund and Test and Trace Support Payment are available to staff who are off work due to illnesses or self-isolation relating to coronavirus. This is on top of measures that allow the payment of Statutory Sick Pay from the first qualifying day of sickness or self-isolation.</p><p> </p><p>For other sickness absences not relating to coronavirus, employees may be eligible for Statutory Sick Pay, which is paid from the fourth qualifying day. Eligibility conditions apply.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 23/10/2020 12:07:19 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
	tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas