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<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>
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