Question follow-through · 6357
Employment: Chronic Illnesses
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment her Department has made of the adequacy of opportunities for employment for people with long-term health conditions such as Multiple Sclerosis.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 3 Jun 2026
- Target answer date
- 8 Jun 2026
- Answer
- 18 Jun 2026 · 15 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
3 Jun 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment her Department has made of the adequacy of opportunities for employment for people with long-term health conditions such as Multiple Sclerosis.
8 Jun 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
18 Jun 2026
Answer published
Disabled people and people with long-term health conditions have a lower rate of employment. The employment rate for disabled people was 53.1% in Q1 2026 and 64.1% for people with long-term health conditions, compared to 82.2% for non-disabled people. Dis...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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