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      ], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1727144/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : "<p>The Equality Act 2010 (the Act) protects disabled people against unlawful direct or indirect discrimination in employment, including by placing a duty on employers to make, on request, reasonable adjustments to any element of a job, job application or interview process, which may place disabled people at a substantial disadvantage compared to non-disabled people.<\/p><p> <\/p><p>There are no current plans to amend the reasonable adjustments duty in the Act. In most cases, it is fairer to apply a \u201creasonableness\u201d test which enables each situation to be considered on its merits, rather than impose rigid, universal requirements on employers and service providers. Where an employer takes an unreasonably long time to make a decision on a reasonable adjustment request, this omission could, of itself, potentially be considered a failure to make the adjustment, which could in turn be actionable by the affected person at an employment tribunal.<\/p>"}
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      , "tablingMember" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/5075", "tablingMemberConstituency" : {"_value" : "Ealing Southall"}
      , "tablingMemberPrinted" : [{"_value" : "Deirdre Costigan"}
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      ], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1726755/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : "<p>The Government has ambitious employment plans, including for disability employment. We will be setting this out through a forthcoming White Paper, the Employment Rights Bill and the Equality (Race and Disability) Bill. A fully inclusive labour market that enables disabled people and people with health conditions to have access to the same opportunities as everyone else to the benefits of work is crucial to meeting our ambition for an 80% employment rate.<\/p><p> <\/p><p>Employers play a key role in supporting the health of their workforce and minimising health-related job loss. Proactive initiatives from employers and all parts of society, such as the Disability Employment Charter, to support disabled people and people with health conditions to thrive in work are welcome. While the Government has not made a formal assessment of its impact, we know that the employers signed up to the Disability Employment Charter are sending a positive message to current and potential employees.<\/p>"}
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      ], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1726759/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : "<p>The Government has ambitious employment plans, including for disability employment. We will be setting this out through a forthcoming White Paper, the Employment Rights Bill and the Equality (Race and Disability) Bill. A fully inclusive labour market that enables disabled people and people with health conditions to have access to the same opportunities as everyone else to the benefits of work is crucial to meeting our ambition for an 80% employment rate.<\/p><p> <\/p><p>Employers play a key role in supporting the health of their workforce and minimising health-related job loss. Proactive initiatives from employers and all parts of society, such as the Disability Employment Charter, to support disabled people and people with health conditions to thrive in work are welcome. While the Government has not made a formal assessment of its impact, we know that the employers signed up to the Disability Employment Charter are sending a positive message to current and potential employees.<\/p>"}
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      ], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether she plans to implement the recommendations of The Disability Employment Charter.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
      , "tablingMember" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/5075", "tablingMemberConstituency" : {"_value" : "Ealing Southall"}
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      ], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1715622/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : "<p>Good work is generally good for health. This is why in the <em>Health and Disability White Paper<\/em> the Government reaffirmed its commitment to close the disability employment gap and stated its intention to set a new disability employment ambition.<\/p><p> <\/p><p>The latest figures, released by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) for October to December 2023, showed that he disability employment gap was 27.9 percentage points. This was a decrease of 1.9 percentage points on the year. However, the ONS have advised caution when interpreting short-term changes due to the recent volatility in the data.<\/p><p> <\/p><p>Disabled people and people with health conditions are a diverse group so access to the right work and health support, in the right place, at the right time, is key. The Government therefore has an ambitious programme of initiatives to support disabled people and people with health conditions to start, stay and succeed in work. These include:<\/p><ul><li><strong>The Work and Health Programme<\/strong> providing tailored and personalised support for disabled people;<\/li><li><strong>Access to Work grants<\/strong> helping towards extra costs of working beyond standard reasonable adjustments;<\/li><li><strong>Disability Confident<\/strong> encouraging employers to think differently about disability and health, and to take positive action to address the issues disabled employees face in the workplace;<\/li><li><strong>A <\/strong><a href=\"https://www.support-with-employee-health-and-disability.dwp.gov.uk/support-with-employee-health-and-disability\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>digital<\/strong><\/a><strong> information service for employers<\/strong> providing better integrated and tailored guidance on supporting health and disability in the workplace;<\/li><li>Increasing access to <strong>Occupational Health<\/strong>, including the testing of financial incentives for small and medium-sized enterprises and the self-employed;<\/li><li><strong>Additional Work Coach support<\/strong> in Jobcentres for disabled people and people with health conditions to help them move towards and in to work;<\/li><li><strong>Disability Employment Advisers <\/strong>in Jobcentres offering advice and expertise on how to help disabled people and people with health conditions into work;<\/li><li>Work in partnership between the DWP and health systems, including:<\/li><\/ul><p>o <strong>Employment Advisors in NHS Talking Therapies<\/strong>, which combines psychological treatment and employment support for people with mental health conditions; and<\/p><p>o The <strong>Individual Placement and Support in Primary Care<\/strong> <strong>programme<\/strong>, a Supported Employment model (place, train and maintain) delivered in health settings, aimed at people with physical or common mental health disabilities to support them to access paid jobs in the open labour market;<\/p><p> <\/p><p>Building on this, we announced significant additional investment during the 2023 fiscal events. Alongside the delivery of our existing initiatives, we are now focused on delivering this package which includes:<\/p><ul><li>A new voluntary employment programme called <strong>Universal<\/strong><strong> Support (US)<\/strong> for 100,000 people per year when fully rolled out in England and Wales. This programme will provide up to a year of ongoing wraparound support for people with health conditions to stay and succeed in work;<\/li><li><strong>WorkWell<\/strong>, which will bring together the NHS, local authorities and other partners, in collaboration with jobcentres, to provide light touch work and health support for approximately 60,000 people. The WorkWell services will be in place from autumn 2024 and will be delivered in 15 pilot areas;<\/li><li>Building on the extension of the certification of the <strong>fit notes<\/strong> to a wider range of healthcare professions, we are exploring new ways of providing individuals receiving a fit note with timely access to work and health support. Through a <em>Call for Evidence <\/em>we are currently seeking views from those with lived experiences, healthcare professionals and employers;<\/li><li>Introducing <strong>Employment Advisors to Musculoskeletal Conditions (MSK) services<\/strong> in England, helping individuals with MSK conditions to return to or remain in employment (work in partnership between DWP and health systems); and<\/li><li>Publishing the Government response to the <a href=\"https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/occupational-health-working-better\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Occupational Health: Working Better<\/strong><\/a> consultation. This included establishing an expert group to support the development of the voluntary national baseline for Occupational Health provision<p><p><\/li><\/ul><p>From 2025, we are reforming the Work Capability Assessment (WCA) to reflect new flexibilities in the labour market and greater employment opportunities for disabled people and people with health conditions, whilst maintaining protections for those with the most significant conditions. Alongside these changes, a new Chance to Work Guarantee will effectively remove the WCA for most existing claimants who have already been assessed without work-related requirements removing the fear of reassessment and giving this group the confidence to try work.<\/p><p> <\/p><p> <\/p><p> <\/p><p><strong> <\/strong><\/p><p><strong> <\/strong><\/p><p><strong> <\/strong><\/p><p><strong> <\/strong><\/p><p><strong> <\/strong><\/p>"}
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      ], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1715623/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : "<p>In the National Disability Strategy (NDS), the Cabinet Office committed to leading a consultation on workforce reporting on disability for large employers exploring both voluntary and mandated workplace transparency. A formal consultation ran from 16 December 2021 to 25 March 2022. Work on the disability workforce reporting consultation was paused in line with other work deriving from the NDS whilst a legal challenge on the NDS was ongoing. Following a successful appeal, we have now commenced analysis of the consultation responses and will publish the consultation response findings in 2024.<\/p>"}
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      ], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1715625/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : "<p>DWP is committed to strengthening the Disability Confident Scheme to ensure it remains credible, sufficiently challenging, and continues to support the employment of disabled people. Key to this is the implementation of the recommendations from the review including work to strengthen the criteria for all employers and tailoring the scheme for SMEs. On 9 April 2024 DWP published a revised version of the <a href=\"https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/disability-confident-and-cipd-guide-for-line-managers-on-employing-people-with-a-disability-or-health-condition\" target=\"_blank\">Disability Confident Line Manager\u2019s Guide,<\/a> in collaboration with the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD), providing a range of guidance to support businesses of all sizes. Further changes to the scheme criteria stemming from these recommendations are well underway and we expect to have fully implemented them by the end of March 2025.<\/p><p> <\/p><p>The Department is continuing to work with a wide range of stakeholders, including employers, disability charities, and disabled people\u2019s organisations to develop, and grow the scheme to increase the number of inclusive employers in the UK.<\/p>"}
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      ], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1715626/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : "<p>The Government has no plans to introduce a statutory right for disability support leave for disabled employees.<\/p><p> <\/p><p>All employers already have a duty to make \u2018reasonable adjustments\u2019 in the workplace where a disabled person would otherwise be put at a substantial disadvantage compared with their colleagues. The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) is responsible for enforcing the Equality Act and providing guidance on reasonable adjustments.<\/p><p> <\/p><p>For disabled people who require adjustments which are beyond reasonable adjustments, Access to Work (AtW) can provide a grant for the disability related extra costs of working a disabled employee may face. To support employers an AtW case manager will contact the customer\u2019s employer ahead of making an AtW award to offer advice on reasonable adjustments an employer can provide and the support available under the AtW scheme.<\/p>"}
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