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1145728

registered interest
date	25/09/2019
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	Department for Work and Pensions: 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 is in her Department.
tabling member constituency	Cambridge
tabling member printed	Daniel Zeichner
uin	290745
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/10/2019 answer text <p>The disability employment gap is the measure of the difference between the employment rate of disabled people and the employment rate of non-disabled people. It is not therefore something which can be measured at the level of a single organisation. The current disability employment gap in the UK is 28.9 percentage points.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 03/10/2019 16:22:32 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4382 label Biography information for Daniel Zeichner

1145729

registered interest
date	25/09/2019
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	Disability: Pay
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 Trades Union Congress's report entitled TUC calls on Government to make employers report their disability pay gap, what steps her Department has taken to address the disability pay gap.
tabling member constituency	Cambridge
tabling member printed	Daniel Zeichner
uin	290746
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/10/2019 answer text <p>The government published the voluntary reporting framework on disability, mental ill health and wellbeing in November 2018.This is aimed at large employers (over 250 employees) and it is recommended that they publically report on the pay and progression of disabled people at regular intervals. It can also be used to support smaller employers who are keen to drive greater transparency in their organisation or industry.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 04/10/2019 12:59:58 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4382 label Biography information for Daniel Zeichner

1145596

registered interest
date	24/09/2019
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: 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 Government's progress on achieving employment for one million more disabled people by 2027.
tabling member constituency	Cambridge
tabling member printed	Daniel Zeichner
uin	290358
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/10/2019 answer text <p>In 2017, the Government set out its commitment to see 1 million more disabled people in employment by 2027. In the first two years of the commitment (between Q1 2017 and Q1 2019), the number of disabled people in employment increased by 404,000.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 02/10/2019 13:40:10 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4382 label Biography information for Daniel Zeichner

1145597

registered interest
date	24/09/2019
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: Disability
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent steps she has taken to address the disability employment gap.
tabling member constituency	Cambridge
tabling member printed	Daniel Zeichner
uin	290359
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/10/2019 answer text <p>Government set out a ten year change programme, to improve disability employment, in the Command Paper “Improving Lives: the future of work, health and disability” (2017). This describes actions across welfare, workplace and health settings.</p><p>Recent steps taken include:</p><ul><li>holding a consultation on how employers can best support disabled people and people with long-term health conditions to stay in and thrive in work;</li><li>supporting disabled people into work through initiatives like the Work and Health Programme and Personal Support Package, and introducing the new Intensive Personalised Employment Support programme, which will be in place by the end of 2019;</li><li>from April 2019, we introduced an enhanced Disability Employment Adviser and a new Disability Employment Adviser Leader role, in total more than 800 individuals supporting Jobcentre colleagues to provide high quality services to disabled people and those with health conditions;</li><li>using an Innovation Fund funded by DWP, DHSC, and NHS England to test initiatives to support disabled people and those with health conditions to get into, and remain in, work;</li><li>introducing, in November 2018, a voluntary reporting framework to support employers to record and voluntarily report information on disability and mental health in the workplace;</li><li>providing support for nearly 34,000 disabled workers last year through the Access to Work scheme; and</li><li>engaging with employers through the Disability Confident scheme.</li></ul> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 02/10/2019 14:57:37 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4382 label Biography information for Daniel Zeichner

1145598

registered interest
date	24/09/2019
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: 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 disabled people leaving work as a result of a (a) disability and (b) long-term health condition in (i) 2016, (ii) 2017 and (iii) 2018.
tabling member constituency	Cambridge
tabling member printed	Daniel Zeichner
uin	290360
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/10/2019 answer text <p>The information requested is not available.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 02/10/2019 13:47:55 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4382 label Biography information for Daniel Zeichner

1145599

registered interest
date	24/09/2019
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	Department for Work and Pensions: Resignations
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many working age people employed in her Department have left work as a result of a (a) disability and (b) long-term health condition in (i) 2016, (ii) 2017 and (iii) 2018.
tabling member constituency	Cambridge
tabling member printed	Daniel Zeichner
uin	290361
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/10/2019 answer text <p>When leaving the department, people are asked on a voluntary basis to complete a questionnaire stating the reason we are therefore unable to give complete figures. The table below shows numbers of ill health retirements over the period requested.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="2"><p><strong>Ill Health Retirements</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>year ending</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>No of People</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Dec-16</p></td><td><p>174</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Dec-17</p></td><td><p>129</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Dec-18</p></td><td><p>126</p></td></tr></tbody></table></p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 01/10/2019 16:42:38 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4382 label Biography information for Daniel Zeichner

1145600

registered interest
date	24/09/2019
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	Department for Work and Pensions: 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 taken to encourage the retention of disabled people working in her Department.
tabling member constituency	Cambridge
tabling member printed	Daniel Zeichner
uin	290362
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/10/2019 answer text <p>DWP is proud to be a Disability Confident Leader and is committed to attracting, recruiting and retaining disabled people, and supporting them to achieve their full potential.</p><p>To support this commitment and retain our disabled colleagues we have implemented a number of actions which include:</p><p> </p><ul><li>Increasing Line Manager capabilities and confidence to embed inclusive leadership throughout DWP. For example, we have introduced a mandatory Senior Civil Servant Diversity &amp; Inclusion and Wellbeing objective; embedded disability confidence in our Leadership Essential Learning products.</li></ul><p> </p><ul><li>Implementation of an ‘I Can Be Me in DWP’ campaign designed to empower all DWP staff to engage in conversations within their teams and encourage them to do things differently.</li></ul><p> </p><ul><li>Streamlining and improving information on our intranet guidance pages relating to Workplace Adjustments and provision of bespoke Occupational Health advice.</li></ul><p> </p><ul><li>Continue to improve our workplace adjustment passport including changes to the current funding methods for adjustments to simplify the process and remove potential barriers.</li></ul><p> </p><ul><li>Increased Mental Health and employee network support via the training of a network of 1,243 Mental Health First Aider with the aim of further increasing this to 1600 by March 2020.</li></ul><p> </p><ul><li>Provision of mentoring and coaching opportunities and access to cross-government development programmes for talented civil servants in under-represented groups with the desire and potential to progress their careers.</li></ul> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 01/10/2019 16:10:31 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4382 label Biography information for Daniel Zeichner

1145601

registered interest
date	24/09/2019
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	Department for Work and Pensions: 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 has taken to increase the number of disabled people employed by her Department.
tabling member constituency	Cambridge
tabling member printed	Daniel Zeichner
uin	290363
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/10/2019 answer text <p>DWP is proud to be a Disability Confident Leader and is committed to attracting, recruiting and retaining disabled people, and supporting them to achieve their full potential.</p><p>To support this commitment and increase the number of disabled colleagues we employ we have implemented a number of actions which include:</p><p> </p><ul><li><p>encouraging individuals to voluntarily share their personal diversity information so that we have a hold of our workforce representation;</p><p> </p></li><li><p>developing our attraction strategy to better promote the diversity of our workforce and our commitment to inclusion and equality of opportunity for all;</p></li></ul><p> </p><ul><li><p>a review of our recruitment process and adopting the new Civil Service Success Profile recruitment method, moving towards a more strengths based rather than competency focussed recruitment approach;</p></li></ul><p> </p><ul><li><p>continued application of the Guaranteed Interview Scheme to ensure that all disabled candidates who meet the minimum sift requirements are offered an interview, and provision of reasonable adjustment support throughout the whole application process;</p></li></ul><p> </p><ul><li><p>introduction of diverse interview panel representation;</p></li></ul><p> </p><ul><li><p>Implementation of a Senior Civil Servant new entrant disabled on-flow target of 12% by 2025, as of March 2019 we are achieving 11.3% (please note that these figures are not currently published)</p></li></ul> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 02/10/2019 13:26:44 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4382 label Biography information for Daniel Zeichner

1145602

registered interest
date	24/09/2019
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: 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 organisations have participated in her Department's voluntary reporting framework on disability, mental health and wellbeing in the workplace since November 2018.
tabling member constituency	Cambridge
tabling member printed	Daniel Zeichner
uin	290364
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/10/2019 answer text <p>The voluntary reporting framework was developed by the Government in partnership with employers and expert partners to support organisations to record and voluntarily report information on disability, mental health and wellbeing in the workplace. There is no requirement for them to notify the Government of this information and no figures on participation are held. The approach recognises that transparency can be an effective leaver in creating a more equal society both for employees within organisations and for external audiences.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 02/10/2019 14:25:59 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4382 label Biography information for Daniel Zeichner

1137856

registered interest
date	09/07/2019
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	Industrial Diseases: Death
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, for what reasons his Department does not record deaths caused by (a) industrial disease and (b) other occupational hazards after the age of 75.
tabling member constituency	Cambridge
tabling member printed	Daniel Zeichner
uin	275214
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/07/2019 answer text <p>The Health and Safety Executive’s (HSE) estimates of the annual number of deaths linked to past exposures at work include deaths occurring at all ages. However, analyses of national mortality data based on the last occupation of the deceased recorded on death certificates, such as the mesothelioma analyses published by HSE, do not include deaths beyond age 74. This is because it is known that the accuracy of occupational information recorded on death certificates declines for older ages. Therefore, the data on the last occupation of the deceased is only coded for those aged 16 to 74 in England and Wales by the Office for National Statistics.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 17/07/2019 09:19:13 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4382 label Biography information for Daniel Zeichner