Question follow-through · 11931
Employment: Disability
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment has been made of the economic contribution of disabled workers.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 22 Jun 2026
- Target answer date
- 24 Jun 2026
- Answer
- 30 Jun 2026 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
22 Jun 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment has been made of the economic contribution of disabled workers.
24 Jun 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
30 Jun 2026
Answer published
In Q1 2026, there were 10.5 million working-age disabled people in the UK, of which 5.6 million were in employment (53.1%), an increase of 1.6 million (1.3 percentage points) since the same quarter of 2019. However, there remains a persistent gap between ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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