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	registered interest
	date	15/11/2016
	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: Mental Illness
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps the Government is taking to ensure that people with mental health conditions are properly supported into work.
	tabling member constituency	Yeovil
	tabling member printed	Marcus Fysh
	uin	907336
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/11/2016 answer text <p>We are investing significant resources in this area including increasing the coverage of the Talking Therapy services by 600,000 people per year to 1.5million by 2020. We are also investing in trials and initiatives with a view to taking forward those that work best for individuals.</p><p> </p><p>Mental Health is a key feature of our Green Paper Improving Lives published on 31 October 2016.</p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt question first answered 21/11/2016 17:40:12 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
	tabling member	4446 label Biography information for Mr Marcus Fysh

672741

	registered interest
	date	13/01/2017
	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: Mental Illness
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps is he is taking to ensure full access to the workplace for people with ongoing mental health conditions.
	tabling member constituency	Redditch
	tabling member printed	Karen Lumley
	uin	59948
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/01/2017 answer text <p>The Work, Health and Disability Green Paper ‘Improving Lives’, published in October 2016, sets out our intention to remove the long-standing injustices and barriers that stop disabled people and people with health conditions, including ongoing mental health conditions, from getting into work and getting on. We are also determined to bring a new focus to efforts to prevent health conditions from developing and worsening, helping more people to remain in work for longer. This includes putting mental and physical health on an equal footing, to ensure people get the right care and prevent mental illness in the first place.</p><p>To make early progress we are significantly improving our employment support. For example, expanding the number of employment advisers and introducing a new Personal Support Package offering tailored employment support. We are working with health partners to embed evidence into clinical practice and support training and education across the NHS workforce. We are also investing £115 million of funding to develop new models of support to help people into work when they are managing a long-term health condition or disability. We will identify and rapidly scale those which can make a difference, while weeding out less promising approaches.</p><p>In her speech on the 9th January the Prime Minister announced that more will be done to support mental wellbeing in the workplace. Lord Stevenson, who has campaigned on these issues for many years, and Paul Farmer, CEO of Mind and Chair of the NHS Mental Health Taskforce, have been commissioned to work with leading employers and mental health groups to create a new partnership with industry and, review how best to ensure employees with mental health problems are enabled to thrive in the workplace and perform at their best and make prevention and breaking the stigma top priorities for employers. The Prime Minister also announced a review of employment discrimination laws against people with mental health conditions in the workplace for employees with mental health problems to ensure they are properly supported.</p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt question first answered 20/01/2017 11:19:41 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
	tabling member	4023 label Biography information for Karen Lumley

672742

	registered interest
	date	13/01/2017
	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: Mental Illness
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps his Department is taking to encourage businesses to follow Department of Health guidance for employers on workplace adjustments for mental health conditions to promote mental health well-being among employees.
	tabling member constituency	Redditch
	tabling member printed	Karen Lumley
	uin	59975
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/01/2017 answer text <p>Access to Work has a Mental Health Support Service (MHSS) to assist those who are experiencing mental health difficulties which are affecting them at work, and those with a pre-existing mental health condition who have a job start date. We are currently consulting, through the Work, Health and Disability Green Paper, Improving Lives, to better understand how we can assist employers with their role of creating wellbeing in the workplace.</p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt question first answered 20/01/2017 11:25:55 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
	tabling member	4023 label Biography information for Karen Lumley

751857

	registered interest
	date	13/07/2017
	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: Mental Illness
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what workplace guidance is available to employers on the use of discriminatory language towards people with a mental illness.
	tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
	tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
	uin	4940
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/07/2017 answer text <p>We want employers to create inclusive workplaces which support good mental health, and prevent discriminatory language and practices.</p><p> </p><p>Many employers already have a strong track record in this area and we want to learn from their success, as well as support other employers to create supportive workplace cultures.</p><p> </p><p>There is already a wealth of information available on how employers can support people with mental health conditions. Government sought views on what would further support employers in “Improving Lives - the Work, Health and Disability Green Paper’ and we are now analysing responses to the consultation.</p><p> </p><p>We will also be considering what further guidance could be made available to employers through the internal review of protections from workplace mental health discrimination, announced by the Prime Minister in January.</p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt question first answered 18/07/2017 11:16:34 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
	tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger

598453

	registered interest
	date	10/10/2016
	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: Mental Illness
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent measures the Government has undertaken to ensure that people with mental health conditions are properly supported into work.
	tabling member constituency	Crawley
	tabling member printed	Henry Smith
	uin	47903
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/10/2016 answer text <p>We are investing significant resources in improving provision to help people with mental health conditions back to work. This includes funding to increase the coverage of the Talking Therapy services by 600,000 people per year to 1.5million by 2020 and investment in a number of voluntary initiatives and trials to test different types of support, with a view to taking forward those that have the most impact.</p><p>In addition we will shortly be publishing a Green Paper on work and health to seek views on what will work to deliver real lasting change for disabled people and those with a health condition. Mental health will be a key focus of our Green Paper as we know that people with mental health conditions fare poorly in the labour market.</p><p>Our aim is to help transform the lives and prospects of disabled people and those with a health condition and contribute to building a society and an economy that works for everyone.</p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt question first answered 18/10/2016 15:35:55 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
	tabling member	3960 label Biography information for Henry Smith