Question follow-through · 12047
Employment: Disability
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent assessment he has made of trends in the level of the disability employment gap; and what steps his Department is taking to reduce that gap.
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 23 Jun 2026
- Target answer date
- 25 Jun 2026
- Answer
- 2 Jul 2026 · 9 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
23 Jun 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent assessment he has made of trends in the level of the disability employment gap; and what steps his Department is taking to reduce that gap.
25 Jun 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
2 Jul 2026
Answer published
The Government is committed to reducing the disability employment gap to ensure disabled people are supported to get into, stay in and get on in work. Official statistics, published quarterly by the independent Office for National Statistics (ONS) and ann...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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