Question follow-through · 10541
Employment: Autism
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she plans to take to improve support for employers who hire people with autism.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 22 Oct 2024
- Target answer date
- 30 Oct 2024
- Answer
- 30 Oct 2024 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
22 Oct 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she plans to take to improve support for employers who hire people with autism.
30 Oct 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
30 Oct 2024
Answer published
Employers play a key role in increasing employment opportunities and supporting autistic people to thrive as part of the workforce. Our current support to employers includes the Disability Confident scheme and a digital information service for employers w...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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