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348496

	registered interest
	date	04/06/2015
	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: Disability
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what steps they are taking to end the disability employment gap.
	tabling member printed	Lord Touhig
	uin	HL268
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/06/2015 answer text <p>In the last 12 months there has been an increase of 238,000 disabled people in work. That is really positive, but there is more to do.</p><p> </p><p>We have been very clear that the gap between the employment rates of disabled people and non-disabled people remains too big and have committed to halving it.</p><p> </p><p>Government cannot achieve this ambition alone so we are working closely with disabled people, their organisations, employers and employment support providers to develop our strategy to enable more disabled people to get into, remain in and progress in work.</p><p> </p><p>The Disability Confident Campaign, which actively promotes the Access to Work scheme, is key to supporting employers in working with Government to halve the disability employment gap.</p> answering member printed Baroness Altmann question first answered 18/06/2015 11:45:10 answering member 4533 label Biography information for Baroness Altmann
	tabling member	542 label Biography information for Lord Touhig

349279

	registered interest
	date	09/06/2015
	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: Disability
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the disability employment gap was for people who (a) are deaf, (b) have a vision impairment and (c) are deafblind on the latest date for which figures are available.
	tabling member constituency	Stretford and Urmston
	tabling member printed	Kate Green
	uin	1719
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/06/2015 answer text <p>The disability employment rate gap is the difference between the employment rate of disabled people and the employment rate of non-disabled people.</p><p> </p><p>One way to measure the gap is using the Labour Force Survey (LFS). The latest data available from the LFS relates to January 2015 to March 2015. The latest LFS figures are set out in the table below. This table shows the disability employment rate gap along with the disability employment rate gaps for people who have difficulty in hearing and those who have difficulty in seeing. Data on those who are deafblind is not collected on the Labour Force Survey.</p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Main health condition</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Employment rate</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Employment rate gap</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>All working age people who are not classified as Equality Act core disabled and/or work-limiting disabled (excluding those who did not state their health situation)</p></td><td><p>79.3%</p></td><td><p>n/a</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>All working age<sup>3</sup> disabled people<sup>4</sup></p></td><td><p>46.3%</p></td><td><p>32.9%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Working age disabled people<sup>4</sup> who report their main health problem as difficulty in seeing</p></td><td><p>45.7%</p></td><td><p>33.5%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Working age disabled people<sup>4</sup> who report their main health problem as difficulty in hearing</p></td><td><p>64.9%</p></td><td><p>14.3%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Working age disabled people<sup>4</sup> who report their main health problem as being deafblind<sup>5</sup></p></td><td><p>n/a</p></td><td><p>n/a</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p>Notes:</p><p>1 Estimates were obtained from the latest Labour Force Survey (LFS) and relate to January 2015 to March 2015.</p><p>2 Percentages are rounded to one decimal place.</p><p>3 Men and women aged 16-64.</p><p>4 In April 2013, changes were made to the wording of the disability questions in order to bring the LFS into line with the Government Statistical Service (GSS) Harmonised Standards for questions on disability and also enable the LFS estimates to be consistent with the definitions used in 2010 Equality Act. As with all new questions, they are subject to ONS monitoring of responses for several quarters, and should therefore be interpreted with caution. Due to the definitional changes, these estimates cannot be compared with estimates for previous years which were based on a definition relating to the Disability Discrimination Act (DDA).</p><p>5 This data is not collected. Deafblind is not listed as a main disabling condition either on LFS,</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>It is not possible to say how many people whose Access to Work awards currently exceed the proposed limit on those awards are deafblind as there is nowhere to record deafblind specifically on the Access to Work computer system (DISC).</p><p>From December 2014, all deafblind cases are administered by the Visually Impaired specialist team. And therefore should be recorded under the Visual Impairments category for Access to Work allocation purposes.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson grouped question UIN 1718 1723 question first answered 17/06/2015 12:45:09 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
	tabling member	4120 label Biography information for Kate Green

381825

	registered interest
	date	16/06/2015
	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: Disability
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of trends in the rate of disability employment.
	tabling member constituency	Crawley
	tabling member printed	Henry Smith
	uin	900463
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/06/2015 answer text <p>Last year saw an increase of 238,000 disabled people in work. The employment rate is now 46.3% - up 2.1% from last year. Our Disability Confident Campaign is ensuring that employers understand the benefits of employing disabled people. And our programmes, like Work Choice and Access to Work, are supporting disabled people into work. We will continue build on this success.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 22/06/2015 16:06:53 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
	tabling member	3960 label Biography information for Henry Smith

381871

	registered interest
	date	17/06/2015
	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: Disability
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of changes in the rate of disability employment in each of the last 10 years.
	tabling member constituency	North East Hertfordshire
	tabling member printed	Sir Oliver Heald
	uin	2887
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/06/2015 answer text <p /> <p>Estimates of the UK disability employment rate can be found on the Office for National Statistics website at the following link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/rel/lms/labour-market-statistics/may-2015/table-a08.xls" target="_blank">http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/rel/lms/labour-market-statistics/may-2015/table-a08.xls</a></p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 22/06/2015 16:00:22 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
	tabling member	69 label Biography information for Sir Oliver Heald

384417

	registered interest
	date	19/06/2015
	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: Disability
	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 help people with disabilities back into work.
	tabling member constituency	Central Suffolk and North Ipswich
	tabling member printed	Dr Poulter
	uin	3280
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/06/2015 answer text <p>Last year saw an increase of 238,000 disabled people in work. The employment rate is now 46.3% - up 2.1% from last year. Our Disability Confident Campaign is ensuring that employers understand the benefits of employing disabled people. And our programmes, like Work Choice and Access to Work, are supporting disabled people into work. We will continue to build on this success.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 24/06/2015 13:52:48 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
	tabling member	3932 label Biography information for Dr Dan Poulter

384427

	registered interest
	date	16/06/2015
	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: Disability
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps he plans to take to help people with disabilities into work and training.
	tabling member constituency	Torbay
	tabling member printed	Kevin Foster
	uin	900458
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/06/2015 answer text <p /> <p>We have extended Access to Work to support disabled people take up supported internships and traineeships. We are launching Specialist Employability Support to provide intensive back to work support for more disabled people. We will continue to work with employers to ensure that they understand the benefits of recruiting and retaining disabled people.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 22/06/2015 16:04:51 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
	tabling member	4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster

384513

	registered interest
	date	22/06/2015
	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: Disability
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many people they expect to find jobs as a result of the Disability Confident campaign.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Kennedy of Cradley
	uin	HL724
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/07/2015 answer text <p /> <p>The Disability Confident campaign makes the business case for recruiting and retaining more disabled people and aims to increase the number of employers taking positive action to be more disability confident. We are not able to measure the number of disabled people moving into employment as a direct result of it, but the campaign is an important contributor towards our commitment to halve the gap between the employment rates of disabled and non-disabled people.</p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member printed Baroness Altmann question first answered 06/07/2015 12:00:19 answering member 4533 label Biography information for Baroness Altmann
	tabling member	4303 label Biography information for Baroness Kennedy of Cradley

387478

	registered interest
	date	02/07/2015
	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: Disability
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the implications of his policies of the conclusions on the increasing employment penalty facing people with a disability as set out in the recent OECD report, Entrepreneurship and Self-employment by People with Disabilities by Professor John Kitching.
	tabling member constituency	East Renfrewshire
	tabling member printed	Kirsten Oswald
	uin	5490
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/07/2015 answer text <p /> <p>While we welcome the paper provided by OECD as an addition to the evidence base relating to disability employment, as the paper itself notes, disability is diverse, disabled people have diverse characteristics, and there are differing models or definitions of disability.</p><p> </p><p>The Department’s officials and analysts make use of a wide evidence base when working to develop strategy and policy and Professor Kitching’s paper quotes from 2007 DWP research with which they are familiar.</p><p> </p><p>DWP monitors disability employment on a quarterly basis using the Labour Force Survey (LFS), and uses LFS data to inform the development of new policy initiatives.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 10/07/2015 09:52:32 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
	tabling member	4413 label Biography information for Kirsten Oswald

425314

	registered interest
	date	02/11/2015
	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: Disability
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what fiscal steps he is taking to support the Government's aim of halving the disability employment gap.
	tabling member constituency	Stalybridge and Hyde
	tabling member printed	Jonathan Reynolds
	uin	14320
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/11/2015 answer text <p>The Government is committed to giving disabled people the opportunity to fulfil their potential and achieve their ambitions. Work is an important part of this. That is why we have committed to halving the disability employment gap, requiring us to transform policy, practice and public attitudes.</p><p>We must build on recent progress. We have already:</p><p>- extended Access to Work to provide support to more disabled people in pre-employment, such as work experience and also to undertake employment-based training, such as supported internships, traineeships and self-arranged work experience.</p><p>- launched Specialist Employability Support, an innovative new programme which provides intensive, specialist support to the disabled people who need the most help.</p><p>- continued to work with employers through our Disability Confident campaign to ensure that they understand the benefits of recruiting and retaining disabled people in work.</p><p>- announced new funding in the Budget of up to £100m per year for additional practical support to provide the right incentives and support to enable those who have limited capability, but who have some potential to prepare, for work to move closer to the labour market, and when they are ready, back into work.</p><p>- committed to spending £43m over the next 3 years to develop the evidence base on what works for those with common mental health conditions retain and return to employment. This will be done through a range of voluntary mental health and employment pilots that will go live next year</p><p><br>We set up the Work and Health unit in the summer to bring together the Work and Health agendas, to help disabled people and people with health conditions get into work, stay in work, and return to work with the right support and we are developing our plans in this area.</p><p>The Government will set out it its spending plans for this Parliament in the forthcoming Spending Review.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 05/11/2015 14:36:00 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
	tabling member	4119 label Biography information for Jonathan Reynolds

429466

	registered interest
	date	19/11/2015
	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: Disability
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how he plans to define (a) disability and (b) employment for the purposes of measuring the Government's progress towards halving the disability employment gap.
	tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
	tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
	uin	16953
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/11/2015 answer text <p>Progress against the disability employment gap commitment is a key factor in progress towards full employment. This is consistent with the Government’s manifesto commitment which said ‘as part of our objective to achieve full employment, we will aim to halve the disability employment gap’. The annual report on progress towards full employment will include an update on the Government’s progress towards halving the disability employment gap.</p><br /><p>Disability is defined in the Equality Act 2010: “A person has a disability if (a) [they] have a physical or mental impairment, and (b) the impairment has a substantial and long-term adverse effect on [their] ability to carry out normal day-to-day activities.”</p><br /><p>Employment in the UK is measured by the Labour Force Survey (LFS). Statistics on disabled employment are published quarterly by the Office for National Statistics, based on internationally agreed definitions.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson grouped question UIN 16954 question first answered 26/11/2015 14:51:02 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
	tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry