Question follow-through · 73589
Employment: Autism
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department is taking to encourage businesses to employ people with autism.
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 29 Aug 2025
- Target answer date
- 2 Sept 2025
- Answer
- 9 Sept 2025 · 11 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
29 Aug 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department is taking to encourage businesses to employ people with autism.
2 Sept 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
9 Sept 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. In January 2025, DWP launched an independent panel of academics with expertise andexperiences of ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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