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1380226

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date	19/11/2021
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 the £156 million committed in the Autumn Budget and Spending Review 2021 to provide job finding support for disabled people, what services that funding will support, in addition to the work coaches referenced in part 4.99 of that document.
tabling member constituency	Bath
tabling member printed	Wera Hobhouse
uin	78481
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/11/2021 answer text <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> answering member constituency Norwich North answering member printed Chloe Smith grouped question UIN 78482 question first answered 30/11/2021 17:33:11 answering member 1609 label Biography information for Chloe Smith
tabling member	4602 label Biography information for Wera Hobhouse

1380227

registered interest
date	19/11/2021
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 (a) the disability employment gap remaining at 28.7 percentage points and (b) the Leonard Cheshire research finding that 69 per cent of disabled people have had their work impacted by covid-19, whether he has made a recent assessment of the need for additional funding to support disabled people entering and remaining in work.
tabling member constituency	Bath
tabling member printed	Wera Hobhouse
uin	78482
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/11/2021 answer text <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> answering member constituency Norwich North answering member printed Chloe Smith grouped question UIN 78481 question first answered 30/11/2021 17:33:11 answering member 1609 label Biography information for Chloe Smith
tabling member	4602 label Biography information for Wera Hobhouse

1205612

registered interest
date	19/06/2020
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Land: Public Sector
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how much publicly owned land has been sold by the Government in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Bath
tabling member printed	Wera Hobhouse
uin	61754
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/06/2020 answer text <p>Details of publicly owned land sold by the Government are available on GOV.UK:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/sales-of-government-assets" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/sales-of-government-assets</a></p> answering member constituency Norwich North answering member printed Chloe Smith question first answered 25/06/2020 13:54:01 answering member 1609 label Biography information for Chloe Smith
tabling member	4602 label Biography information for Wera Hobhouse

917585

registered interest
date	05/06/2018
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Census: Languages
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether the Government has plans to include in the 2021 census a question that records where multiple languages are being spoken in a household.
tabling member constituency	Bath
tabling member printed	Wera Hobhouse
uin	150214
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/06/2018 answer text <p>The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.</p> answering member constituency Norwich North answering member printed Chloe Smith question first answered 11/06/2018 15:19:21 answering member 1609 label Biography information for Chloe Smith attachment 1 file name PQ150214.pdf title UKSA Response
tabling member	4602 label Biography information for Wera Hobhouse