Question follow-through · 67231
Employment: Neurodiversity
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether her Department has set any targets for improving employment rates among autistic adults; and what additional support is being provided to employers to create neurodiverse-friendly workplaces.
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 11 Jul 2025
- Target answer date
- 15 Jul 2025
- Answer
- 16 Jul 2025 · 5 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
11 Jul 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether her Department has set any targets for improving employment rates among autistic adults; and what additional support is being provided to employers to create neurodiverse-friendly workplaces.
15 Jul 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
16 Jul 2025
Answer published
In the plan to Make Work Pay (October 2024), government committed to raising awareness of all forms of neurodiversity in the workplace. This includes autism. We are supporting employers to be more inclusive in their workplace practices. In January this ye...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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