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Employment: Disability

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she is taking to make workplaces more accessible for disabled people.

answeredDepartment for Work and Pensions

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Answering body
Department for Work and Pensions
Tabled
29 Jan 2025
Target answer date
3 Feb 2025
Answer
6 Feb 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 29 Jan 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she is taking to make workplaces more accessible for disabled people.

  2. 3 Feb 2025

    Target answer date

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  3. 6 Feb 2025

    Answer published

    We are committed to boosting opportunity and championing the rights of disabled people. We will work closely with disabled people and their representative organisations to ensure that their needs and voices are at the heart of everything we do. Employers ...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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