Question follow-through · 80155
Employment: Learning Disability and Neurodiversity
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps his Department is taking to help encourage businesses to increase the employment of (a) neurodivergent people and (b) people with learning disabilities.
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 10 Oct 2025
- Target answer date
- 14 Oct 2025
- Answer
- 20 Oct 2025 · 10 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
10 Oct 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps his Department is taking to help encourage businesses to increase the employment of (a) neurodivergent people and (b) people with learning disabilities.
14 Oct 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
20 Oct 2025
Answer published
In its plan to Make Work Pay, the government committed to raising awareness of all forms of neurodiversity in the workplace. Employers have a key role to play in helping neurodivergent people and people with learning disabilities get into and thrive at wo...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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