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date	23/11/2015
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	New Businesses: Disability
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what support is available for disabled entrepreneurs.
tabling member printed	Lord Taylor of Warwick
uin	HL3796
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/12/2015 answer text <p>Anyone, including disabled people, can apply for financial and practical help through the Government’s Start Up Loans scheme.</p><br /><p>Access to Work, which helps people with a disability or health condition to stay in work or start work, now features a new specialist self-employment team to support entrepreneurs and the self-employed.</p><br /><p>Unemployed potential entrepreneurs, including those with disabilities or health conditions, can talk to their Jobcentre Plus Work Coach, or where appropriate, Disability Employment Adviser (DEA), regarding national programmes like Work Choice, Work Programme and the new Specialist Employability Support. These programmes offer tailored services which can include practical support and advice for becoming self-employed.</p><br /><p>Work coaches can also refer claimants, including disabled clients, to the New Enterprise Allowance (NEA). Over 73,000 new businesses have started up through the scheme and 20% of NEA business starts have been made by disabled people. Disabled jobseekers who are accepted onto the NEA scheme may also be entitled to receive an Access to Work grant.</p><br /> answering member printed Baroness Altmann question first answered 04/12/2015 10:38:42 answering member 4533 label Biography information for Baroness Altmann
tabling member	1796 label Biography information for Lord Taylor of Warwick

426446

registered interest
date	05/11/2015
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 Schemes: Young People
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what steps they are taking to improve social support for unemployed young people, in particular in adapting to changing technology.
tabling member printed	Lord Taylor of Warwick
uin	HL3385
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/11/2015 answer text <p>As our Manifesto said, we are committed to abolishing long-term youth unemployment and ensuring that young people are either earning or learning.</p><br /><p>DWP provides a broad range of additional support, over and above the standard Jobcentre Plus offer, to all young people on benefit, which is tailored to their needs. Through the Youth Obligation, from day 1 young people will participate in an intensive support regime equipping them with the skills to not only find a job but build capability to sustain work, and after 6 months they will be supported to apply for an apprenticeship, traineeship, gain work skills or go on a work placement. In addition, if needed, young people already receive support to help them to make and manage their claims on-line and to acquire and improve their digital skills.</p><p><strong></strong></p> answering member printed Lord Freud question first answered 19/11/2015 16:17:03 answering member 3893 label Biography information for Lord Freud
tabling member	1796 label Biography information for Lord Taylor of Warwick

426041

registered interest
date	04/11/2015
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	Disadvantaged: Disability
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the level of social exclusion faced by people with disabilities, as compared with people from minority ethnic backgrounds and LGBT people.
tabling member printed	Lord Taylor of Warwick
uin	HL3314
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/11/2015 answer text <p>The Equality and Human Rights Commission published its report &quot;Is Britain Fairer?&quot; on 30 October. The report looks at the progress made on equality and human rights over the period 2008-2013, and covers different groups including disabled people. Chapter 8 of the Report deals with &quot;The Individual and Society&quot; and Chapter 9 sets out the issues where, in the report's view, the most significant improvements are required. The report is attached at Annex A</p><p>In addition, in July 2013 the Coalition Government published the ‘Fulfilling Potential – Making It Happen’ disability strategy document. Alongside this, it published the ‘Fulfilling Potential Outcomes and Indicators Framework’ designed to monitor progress towards the vision of the Fulfilling Potential strategy. The framework includes measures relating to a number of themes including: education; employment; income; health and wellbeing; choice and control; and inclusive communities. Within inclusive communities, the indicators look at social participation, friends and family and attitudes towards disabled people. An update to the framework was published in September 2014 and is attached at Annex B. A further update to this framework will be published later in November 2015.</p> answering member printed Baroness Altmann attachment 1 file name Annex A.pdf title Annex A 2 file name Annex B.pdf title Annex B question first answered 18/11/2015 13:22:55 answering member 4533 label Biography information for Baroness Altmann
tabling member	1796 label Biography information for Lord Taylor of Warwick