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381871

registered interest
date	17/06/2015
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: 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 he has made of changes in the rate of disability employment in each of the last 10 years.
tabling member constituency	North East Hertfordshire
tabling member printed	Sir Oliver Heald
uin	2887
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/06/2015 answer text <p /> <p>Estimates of the UK disability employment rate can be found on the Office for National Statistics website at the following link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/rel/lms/labour-market-statistics/may-2015/table-a08.xls" target="_blank">http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/rel/lms/labour-market-statistics/may-2015/table-a08.xls</a></p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 22/06/2015 16:00:22 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	69 label Biography information for Sir Oliver Heald

381825

registered interest
date	16/06/2015
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: 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 he has made of trends in the rate of disability employment.
tabling member constituency	Crawley
tabling member printed	Henry Smith
uin	900463
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/06/2015 answer text <p>Last year saw an increase of 238,000 disabled people in work. The employment rate is now 46.3% - up 2.1% from last year. Our Disability Confident Campaign is ensuring that employers understand the benefits of employing disabled people. And our programmes, like Work Choice and Access to Work, are supporting disabled people into work. We will continue build on this success.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 22/06/2015 16:06:53 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	3960 label Biography information for Henry Smith

384427

registered interest
date	16/06/2015
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: 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 he plans to take to help people with disabilities into work and training.
tabling member constituency	Torbay
tabling member printed	Kevin Foster
uin	900458
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/06/2015 answer text <p /> <p>We have extended Access to Work to support disabled people take up supported internships and traineeships. We are launching Specialist Employability Support to provide intensive back to work support for more disabled people. We will continue to work with employers to ensure that they understand the benefits of recruiting and retaining disabled people.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 22/06/2015 16:04:51 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster

349278

registered interest
date	09/06/2015
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: 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 was on 8 May 2015; and what methodology is used in calculating that gap.
tabling member constituency	Stretford and Urmston
tabling member printed	Kate Green
uin	1718
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/06/2015 answer text <p>The disability employment rate gap is the difference between the employment rate of disabled people and the employment rate of non-disabled people.</p><p> </p><p>One way to measure the gap is using the Labour Force Survey (LFS). The latest data available from the LFS relates to January 2015 to March 2015. The latest LFS figures are set out in the table below. This table shows the disability employment rate gap along with the disability employment rate gaps for people who have difficulty in hearing and those who have difficulty in seeing. Data on those who are deafblind is not collected on the Labour Force Survey.</p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Main health condition</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Employment rate</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Employment rate gap</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>All working age people who are not classified as Equality Act core disabled and/or work-limiting disabled (excluding those who did not state their health situation)</p></td><td><p>79.3%</p></td><td><p>n/a</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>All working age<sup>3</sup> disabled people<sup>4</sup></p></td><td><p>46.3%</p></td><td><p>32.9%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Working age disabled people<sup>4</sup> who report their main health problem as difficulty in seeing</p></td><td><p>45.7%</p></td><td><p>33.5%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Working age disabled people<sup>4</sup> who report their main health problem as difficulty in hearing</p></td><td><p>64.9%</p></td><td><p>14.3%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Working age disabled people<sup>4</sup> who report their main health problem as being deafblind<sup>5</sup></p></td><td><p>n/a</p></td><td><p>n/a</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p>Notes:</p><p>1 Estimates were obtained from the latest Labour Force Survey (LFS) and relate to January 2015 to March 2015.</p><p>2 Percentages are rounded to one decimal place.</p><p>3 Men and women aged 16-64.</p><p>4 In April 2013, changes were made to the wording of the disability questions in order to bring the LFS into line with the Government Statistical Service (GSS) Harmonised Standards for questions on disability and also enable the LFS estimates to be consistent with the definitions used in 2010 Equality Act. As with all new questions, they are subject to ONS monitoring of responses for several quarters, and should therefore be interpreted with caution. Due to the definitional changes, these estimates cannot be compared with estimates for previous years which were based on a definition relating to the Disability Discrimination Act (DDA).</p><p>5 This data is not collected. Deafblind is not listed as a main disabling condition either on LFS,</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>It is not possible to say how many people whose Access to Work awards currently exceed the proposed limit on those awards are deafblind as there is nowhere to record deafblind specifically on the Access to Work computer system (DISC).</p><p>From December 2014, all deafblind cases are administered by the Visually Impaired specialist team. And therefore should be recorded under the Visual Impairments category for Access to Work allocation purposes.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson grouped question UIN 1719 1723 question first answered 17/06/2015 12:45:09 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4120 label Biography information for Kate Green

349279

registered interest
date	09/06/2015
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: 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 was for people who (a) are deaf, (b) have a vision impairment and (c) are deafblind on the latest date for which figures are available.
tabling member constituency	Stretford and Urmston
tabling member printed	Kate Green
uin	1719
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/06/2015 answer text <p>The disability employment rate gap is the difference between the employment rate of disabled people and the employment rate of non-disabled people.</p><p> </p><p>One way to measure the gap is using the Labour Force Survey (LFS). The latest data available from the LFS relates to January 2015 to March 2015. The latest LFS figures are set out in the table below. This table shows the disability employment rate gap along with the disability employment rate gaps for people who have difficulty in hearing and those who have difficulty in seeing. Data on those who are deafblind is not collected on the Labour Force Survey.</p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Main health condition</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Employment rate</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Employment rate gap</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>All working age people who are not classified as Equality Act core disabled and/or work-limiting disabled (excluding those who did not state their health situation)</p></td><td><p>79.3%</p></td><td><p>n/a</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>All working age<sup>3</sup> disabled people<sup>4</sup></p></td><td><p>46.3%</p></td><td><p>32.9%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Working age disabled people<sup>4</sup> who report their main health problem as difficulty in seeing</p></td><td><p>45.7%</p></td><td><p>33.5%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Working age disabled people<sup>4</sup> who report their main health problem as difficulty in hearing</p></td><td><p>64.9%</p></td><td><p>14.3%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Working age disabled people<sup>4</sup> who report their main health problem as being deafblind<sup>5</sup></p></td><td><p>n/a</p></td><td><p>n/a</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p>Notes:</p><p>1 Estimates were obtained from the latest Labour Force Survey (LFS) and relate to January 2015 to March 2015.</p><p>2 Percentages are rounded to one decimal place.</p><p>3 Men and women aged 16-64.</p><p>4 In April 2013, changes were made to the wording of the disability questions in order to bring the LFS into line with the Government Statistical Service (GSS) Harmonised Standards for questions on disability and also enable the LFS estimates to be consistent with the definitions used in 2010 Equality Act. As with all new questions, they are subject to ONS monitoring of responses for several quarters, and should therefore be interpreted with caution. Due to the definitional changes, these estimates cannot be compared with estimates for previous years which were based on a definition relating to the Disability Discrimination Act (DDA).</p><p>5 This data is not collected. Deafblind is not listed as a main disabling condition either on LFS,</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>It is not possible to say how many people whose Access to Work awards currently exceed the proposed limit on those awards are deafblind as there is nowhere to record deafblind specifically on the Access to Work computer system (DISC).</p><p>From December 2014, all deafblind cases are administered by the Visually Impaired specialist team. And therefore should be recorded under the Visual Impairments category for Access to Work allocation purposes.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson grouped question UIN 1718 1723 question first answered 17/06/2015 12:45:09 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4120 label Biography information for Kate Green

349290

registered interest
date	09/06/2015
answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept id	26
answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
hansard heading	Employment: Disability
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, if he will assess the implications for his Department's policy on ensuring that disabled people gain employment of the in-year funding reductions announced by the Chancellor of the Exchequer for his Department on 4 June 2015.
tabling member constituency	Stretford and Urmston
tabling member printed	Kate Green
uin	1744
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/06/2015 answer text <p /> <p>We remain committed to ensuring the skills system operates effectively to support learners with learning difficulties and/or disabilities. The majority of the Department’s £450m savings will be delivered through known underspends and releasing unallocated funding. Officials in my department are working with the appropriate funding bodies to determine how savings can best be achieved in line with ministers’ priorities.</p> answering member constituency Grantham and Stamford answering member printed Nick Boles question first answered 16/06/2015 11:06:45 answering member 3995 label Biography information for Nick Boles
tabling member	4120 label Biography information for Kate Green

348496

registered interest
date	04/06/2015
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: Disability
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what steps they are taking to end the disability employment gap.
tabling member printed	Lord Touhig
uin	HL268
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/06/2015 answer text <p>In the last 12 months there has been an increase of 238,000 disabled people in work. That is really positive, but there is more to do.</p><p> </p><p>We have been very clear that the gap between the employment rates of disabled people and non-disabled people remains too big and have committed to halving it.</p><p> </p><p>Government cannot achieve this ambition alone so we are working closely with disabled people, their organisations, employers and employment support providers to develop our strategy to enable more disabled people to get into, remain in and progress in work.</p><p> </p><p>The Disability Confident Campaign, which actively promotes the Access to Work scheme, is key to supporting employers in working with Government to halve the disability employment gap.</p> answering member printed Baroness Altmann question first answered 18/06/2015 11:45:10 answering member 4533 label Biography information for Baroness Altmann
tabling member	542 label Biography information for Lord Touhig

226408

registered interest
date	10/03/2015
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: 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 his Department has taken to improve support for disabled people in work in response to the recommendations of the Sayce Review, published in June 2011.
tabling member constituency	Hendon
tabling member printed	Dr Matthew Offord
uin	227030
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/03/2015 answer text <p>The Government confirmed in March 2012 that it accepted the recommendations in the Sayce Review, to focus resources on tailored personalised support for individuals through services like Access to Work, rather than “one size fits all” institutions and programmes, so that we can significantly increase the number of disabled people that could be supported to access the labour market. The Sayce recommendations on Remploy have been implemented.</p><p> </p><p>The Written Statement on Access to Work published on 12th March sets out proposals to address two key recommendations of Liz Sayce with respect to developing online functionality and personal budgets.</p> answering member constituency Forest of Dean answering member printed Mr Mark Harper question first answered 17/03/2015 15:26:30 answering member 1520 label Biography information for Mr Mark Harper
tabling member	4006 label Biography information for Dr Matthew Offord

223079

registered interest
date	23/02/2015
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: Disability
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when he plans to respond to the second report from the Work and Pensions Committee, Improving access to work for disabled people, HC481.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Brightside and Hillsborough
tabling member printed	Mr David Blunkett
uin	224999
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/02/2015 answer text <p /> <p>I will write to Dame Anne Begg MP, Chair of the Work and Pensions Select Committee, in early March 2015.</p> answering member constituency Forest of Dean answering member printed Mr Mark Harper question first answered 26/02/2015 13:09:32 answering member 1520 label Biography information for Mr Mark Harper
tabling member	395 label Biography information for Lord Blunkett

106135

registered interest
date	03/11/2014
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, in what way his Department participates in the Two Ticks Positive About Disabled People scheme.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	212974
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/11/2014 answer text <p /> <p>DWP administers the Disability Symbol (Two Ticks Positive About Disabled People Scheme) via the network of Disability Employment Advisors (DEAs) located in Jobcentre Plus.</p><p> </p><p>DWP is itself a Two Ticks employer.</p><p> </p><p>There are currently around 3,000 employers signed up to the scheme.</p> answering member constituency Forest of Dean answering member printed Mr Mark Harper question first answered 06/11/2014 16:18:55 answering member 1520 label Biography information for Mr Mark Harper
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms