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1149527

	registered interest
	date	15/10/2019
	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, how much funding her Department allocated to Work Choices in the latest year for which figures are available.
	tabling member constituency	Wirral West
	tabling member printed	Margaret Greenwood
	uin	633
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/10/2019 answer text <p>The Department for Work and Pensions spent £22.4m on Work Choices, including Remploy, in the financial year 2018/19, which is the latest full year spend is available.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Eastleigh answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 21/10/2019 12:13:21 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
	tabling member	4400 label Biography information for Margaret Greenwood

1306328

	registered interest
	date	25/03/2021
	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, what estimate she has made of the number of companies signed up to the Disability Confident scheme; and what assessment she has made of the effect of that scheme on employment rates for disabled people.
	tabling member constituency	Ealing, Southall
	tabling member printed	Mr Virendra Sharma
	uin	175786
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/04/2021 answer text <p>In 2017 the Government set a goal to see 1 million more disabled people in employment over the next 10 years. In the first three years of the goal (between Jan-Mar 2017 and Jan-Mar 2020) the number of disabled people in employment increased by 800,000. The rate of disabled people in employment also increased, by 4.4 percentage points to 53.4%, in the same period.</p><p>The Disability Confident scheme is a learning journey that aims to provide employers with the knowledge, skills, and resources that they need to attract, recruit, retain and develop disabled people in the workplace. No employer is too small or new to start the journey and even the most experienced employer will still find new techniques and best practice that can help them. As of 28th February 2021 over 19,900 employers had signed up to the scheme. Disability Confident is only part of a wider range of services that will support disabled employees into work and stay in work.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 13/04/2021 13:47:51 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
	tabling member	1604 label Biography information for Mr Virendra Sharma

1329834

	registered interest
	date	04/06/2021
	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, what steps she is taking to ensure that companies that are signed up to the Disability Confident Scheme are supporting their disabled employees.
	tabling member constituency	East Renfrewshire
	tabling member printed	Kirsten Oswald
	uin	10438
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/06/2021 answer text <p>Employers that have signed up to the Disability Confident (DC) scheme are provided with the knowledge, skills and free resources they need to attract, recruit, retain and develop disabled people in the workplace. The scheme is designed as a learning journey with all employers starting at Level 1 and encouraged to progress through the scheme to Levels 2 and 3. No employer is too small or new to start the journey and even the most experienced employer will still find new techniques and best practice that can help better support their employees. For example, employers signing up to the scheme are committing to ‘Ensure their recruitment process is inclusive and accessible’ and ‘Supporting any existing employee who acquires a disability or long term health condition, enabling them to stay in work’.</p><p> </p><p>Throughout the pandemic, we have ensured that employers have received timely and appropriate support through the delivery of a series of practical national webinars, covering a range of employer hot topics, ranging from: New Ways of Working, Access to Work, Mental Health and Wellbeing, Virtual Hiring and Autism and Neurodiversity. We have also delivered a number of employer events, focusing on the support available to employees. In addition, all Disability Confident employers receive regular Disability Confident newsletters and other communications to support them and their employees. There are currently over 20,000 employers signed up to the Disability Confident scheme, covering over 11million employees.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 10/06/2021 14:12:30 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
	tabling member	4413 label Biography information for Kirsten Oswald

1329835

	registered interest
	date	04/06/2021
	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, how many companies are signed up to the Disability Confident scheme; and what estimate she has made of the impact that scheme has had on the number of disabled people in employment.
	tabling member constituency	East Renfrewshire
	tabling member printed	Kirsten Oswald
	uin	10439
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/06/2021 answer text <p>There are currently over 20,000 employers signed up to the Disability Confident scheme, covering over 11m employees.</p><p> </p><p>In November 2018, we published the results of survey research which explored the effect that signing up to the Disability Confident scheme had on recruitment and retention attitudes towards disabled people. The researchers interviewed employers of all sizes, ranging from very small organisations with low levels of staff turnover to large companies employing thousands, and a key finding was that signing up to Disability Confident resulted in half (49%) of employers interviewed taking on at least one disabled member of staff, rising to 66% amongst larger firms. The full report may be viewed here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/disability-confident-survey-of-participating-employers" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/disability-confident-survey-of-participating-employers</a>.</p><p>We will be conducting further research this year, to establish the value added by Disability Confident and explore the behaviours of employers and their recruitment and retention practices. Disability Confident employers have also offered over 60,000 specific work opportunities, which include: work experience, work trials, Apprenticeships, Traineeships, job shadowing, student placements, Sector Based Work Academy Placements as well as job vacancies.</p><p>The Government is committed to a goal of seeing a million more disabled people in work in the decade to 2027 and reducing the disability employment gap. In the first three years of the goal (between 2017 and 2020), the number of disabled people in employment increased by 800,000<sup>1</sup>. Between 2014 and 2020 the disability employment gap also reduced by 5.2 percentage points.</p><p> </p><p><em><sup>1</sup></em><em>The underlying data behind this figure is currently under review by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) and is therefore subject to change.</em></p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 10/06/2021 15:47:54 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
	tabling member	4413 label Biography information for Kirsten Oswald

1330680

	registered interest
	date	08/06/2021
	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, what assessment she has made of the implications for her policies of the recommendations from the Social Security Advisory Committee in its recent report on the quality of her Department’s engagement with disabled people when designing or evaluating programmes that affect them.
	tabling member constituency	Battersea
	tabling member printed	Marsha De Cordova
	uin	12294
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/06/2021 answer text <p>I am grateful to the Committee for their report and pleased to see that our sustained efforts to engage with disabled people have been recognised. We are planning to respond to the Committee in the coming weeks.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 11/06/2021 13:53:15 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
	tabling member	4676 label Biography information for Marsha De Cordova

1338893

	registered interest
	date	22/06/2021
	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, what steps her Department is taking to ensure economically inactive disabled people are supported to find jobs.
	tabling member constituency	Battersea
	tabling member printed	Marsha De Cordova
	uin	20512
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/06/2021 answer text <p>The Government is committed to improving the lives of disabled people, and will publish a National Strategy for Disabled People shortly. The Strategy will be informed by insights from the lived experience of disabled people, focusing on the issues that disabled people say affect them the most in all aspects and phases of life, including employment. Employment will be a central theme of the strategy.</p><p>A range of DWP initiatives are supporting disabled people to stay in and enter work. These include the Work and Health Programme, the Intensive Personalised Employment Support programme, Access to Work, Disability Confident and support in partnership with the health system, including Employment Advice in NHS Improving Access to Psychological Therapy services. The Government has also increased the number of specialist Disability Employment Advisors (DEAs) in Jobcentres.</p><p>The Department will shortly publish a Green Paper on health and disability support which will consider how we can improve our current service, provide extra support to navigate the system and seek to better understand how we can improve the current employment support offer.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 29/06/2021 14:09:57 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
	tabling member	4676 label Biography information for Marsha De Cordova

1345805

	registered interest
	date	12/07/2021
	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, what steps her Department is taking to ensure economically inactive disabled people are supported to find jobs; and if she will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	East Ham
	tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
	uin	31280
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/07/2021 answer text <p>The Government is committed to improving the lives of disabled people, and will publish a National Disability Strategy later this year. The Strategy will be informed by insights from the lived experience of disabled people, focusing on the issues that disabled people say affect them the most in all aspects and phases of life, including employment.</p><p>A range of DWP initiatives are supporting disabled people to stay in and enter work. These include the Work and Health Programme, the Intensive Personalised Employment Support programme, Access to Work, Disability Confident and support in partnership with the health system, including Employment Advice in NHS Improving Access to Psychological Therapy services. The Government has also increased the number of specialist Disability Employment Advisors in Jobcentres.</p><p>In addition, the DWP will shortly publish a Green Paper on health and disability support which will consider how we can improve our current service, provide extra support to navigate the system and seek to better understand how we can improve the current employment support offer.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 15/07/2021 14:01:19 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
	tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

1359712

	registered interest
	date	15/10/2021
	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, how many Disability Employment Advisors by (a) full time equivalent and (b) headcount have been employed by her Department in each year since that role was introduced.
	tabling member constituency	Glasgow Central
	tabling member printed	Alison Thewliss
	uin	57103
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/11/2021 answer text <p>The staffing resource assigned to Work Coach and Disability Employment Adviser activities is given below, measured as Full Time Equivalents (FTEs) based on activity-based management (ABM) activities and Staff in Post (SiP).</p><p>Disability Employment Adviser is one of several activities that are counted as Work Coach activities. As such, Disability Employment Advisers are shown as a subset of Work Coaches.</p><p>It is shown as at the end of each financial year since 2018-19, when Work Coach activity was first recorded as a discrete role within our data.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>National</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Mar-19</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Mar-20</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Mar-21</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="4"><p>Staff in Post</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Work Coaches</p></td><td><p>16,315</p></td><td><p>16,191</p></td><td><p>27,286</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="4"><p><em>of which</em></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Disability Employment Advisers<sup>1</sup></p></td><td><p>555</p></td><td><p>657</p></td><td><p>585</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="4"><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="4"><p>Full Time Equivalent (ABM activities)<sup>2</sup></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Work Coaches</p></td><td><p>13,287</p></td><td><p>12,938</p></td><td><p>23,833</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="4"><p><em>of which</em></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Disability Employment Advisers</p></td><td><p>441</p></td><td><p>546</p></td><td><p>478</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><ins class="ministerial"><strong>Central Scotland<sup>3</sup></strong></ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial"><strong>Mar-19</strong></ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial"><strong>Mar-20</strong></ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial"><strong>Mar-21</strong></ins></p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="4"><p><ins class="ministerial">Staff in Post</ins></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><ins class="ministerial">Work Coaches</ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">479</ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">290</ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">403</ins></p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="4"><p><ins class="ministerial"><em>of which</em></ins></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><ins class="ministerial">Disability Employment Advisers<sup>1</sup></ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">17</ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">12</ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">11</ins></p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="4"><p><ins class="ministerial"> </ins></p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="4"><p><ins class="ministerial">Full Time Equivalent (ABM activities)<sup>2</sup></ins></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><ins class="ministerial">Work Coaches</ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">355</ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">204</ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">338</ins></p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="4"><p><ins class="ministerial"><em>of which</em></ins></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><ins class="ministerial">Disability Employment Advisers</ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">10</ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">10</ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">9</ins></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><ins class="ministerial"> </ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">Notes to the tables</ins></p><ol><li><ins class="ministerial">Those carrying out Disability Employment Adviser activities may have this as their only activity, or may split their time between this and other Work Coach activities.</ins></li><li><ins class="ministerial">FTE (ABM activities) is from Departmental Management Information which records how much of each persons’ role is spent doing certain types of work activity. This is then aggregated and rounded to the nearest whole number. The FTE (ABM activities) is therefore lower than the total Staff in Post.</ins></li><li><ins class="ministerial">The main Glasgow conurbation falls within the Central Scotland Jobcentre District.</ins></li></ol><p> </p> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies previous answer version 25574 answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies 30930 answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies question first answered 08/11/2021 17:45:19 question first ministerially corrected 09/11/2021 15:21:40 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
	tabling member	4430 label Biography information for Alison Thewliss

1367342

	registered interest
	date	09/11/2021
	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, how many disabled people have undertaken work placements under the Kickstart scheme or other similar programmes as part of the Plan for Jobs.
	tabling member constituency	East Ham
	tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
	uin	72347
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/11/2021 answer text <p>The Kickstart Scheme supports eligible young people at risk of long term unemployment, regardless of disadvantage or disability. Mechanisms that record the number of disabled young people participating were not included within the initial design of Kickstart, however disability status is recorded on the wider Universal Credit systems.</p><p> </p><p>We are unable to provide information on the number of jobseekers with disabilities who are participating on the Kickstart Scheme or similar programmes as a part of the plan for jobs. This is because the information is not currently collated centrally and could only be provided at disproportionate cost. This is due to data being contained across multiple systems and in some cases being provided voluntarily, meaning it would require a significant level of gathering and quality assurance.</p><p> </p><p>The Department of Work and Pensions plans to track the success of Kickstart amongst young people on the scheme including those who have a disability or health condition as part of the evaluation. We will publish the evaluation once it has been completed.</p><p /> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 16/11/2021 12:28:31 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
	tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

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