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It is an honour to be called to speak in this debate. Indeed, it is the first time that I have. I am a sponsor of the Bill and a member of the Health and Social Care Committee. I congratulate the hon. Member for Rochester and Strood (Lauren Edwards) on...
It is an honour to be called to speak in this debate. Indeed, it is the first time that I have. I am a sponsor of the Bill and a member of the Health and Social Care Committee. I congratulate the hon. Member for Rochester and Strood (Lauren Edwards) on...
I am sorry, but because of time, I will not. If the hon. Member wants, he can send me a postcard with the answer to my question: when have we ever had a perfect piece of legislation? We would be perpetually restrained from making progress if perfect legislation was the...
I am sorry, but because of time, I will not. If the hon. Member wants, he can send me a postcard with the answer to my question: when have we ever had a perfect piece of legislation? We would be perpetually restrained from making progress if perfect legislation was the...
I cannot give way, because of the time constraints. All Bills are necessarily a compromise. That does not mean that we simply have to make do with bad legislation, but the Bill that was sent down to the other place was in fact an excellent compromise that actually achieved all...
I cannot give way, because of the time constraints. All Bills are necessarily a compromise. That does not mean that we simply have to make do with bad legislation, but the Bill that was sent down to the other place was in fact an excellent compromise that actually achieved all...
I am sorry to be stirring up Members at this stage of the debate, particularly as time is very short.
Another theme is that people somehow believe that there is a binary choice available to us on palliative care: that we should either have 100% palliative care, or can go down...
I am sorry to be stirring up Members at this stage of the debate, particularly as time is very short.
Another theme is that people somehow believe that there is a binary choice available to us on palliative care: that we should either have 100% palliative care, or can go down...
That this House recognises Changing Places Toilet Awareness Day 2026 which takes place on 19 July; further recognises the importance of Changing Places toilets for disabled people and their families across the United Kingdom; also recognises that they provide everyone, regardless of their access needs or disability or reliance on the assistance of carers or specialist equipment, with a toilet facility that they can use safely and with dignity; notes the considerable progress made in the provision of Changing Places toilets from the campaign’s launch in 2005, to the provision of the 600th Changing Places toilet in 2016 with over 2,600 Changing Places toilets registered in the UK today; acknowledges that Changing Places Toilets enable anyone to go to the shops, attend hospital appointments, enjoy community life, socialise and travel; further notes the map provided on the Changing Places website advising the location of Changing Places toilets across the UK; welcomes the funding from the Department for Transport which has provided a new Journey Planner feature within the map, with increased functionality for planning travel routes; supports work to develop future digital tools to allow users to easily find up-to-date facilities; highlights that the Changing Places Toilet campaign was initiated by the late Loretto Lambe, PAMIS, to highlight the accessibility struggles for public toilets; and thanks the staff and volunteers at Changing Places toilets for the work they do to ensure everyone has access to safe, comfortable and accessible toilet facilities.
That this House recognises Changing Places Toilet Awareness Day 2026 which takes place on 19 July; further recognises the importance of Changing Places toilets for disabled people and their families across the United Kingdom; also recognises that they provide everyone, regardless of their access needs or disability or reliance on...
Like my hon. Friend the Member for Witney (Charlie Maynard), I welcome the broad direction of the review. I acknowledge that this is happening in the context of some people attempting to create a hostile environment—I hope Count Binface will deal with one source of that hostile environment in the...
Like my hon. Friend the Member for Witney (Charlie Maynard), I welcome the broad direction of the review. I acknowledge that this is happening in the context of some people attempting to create a hostile environment—I hope Count Binface will deal with one source of that hostile environment in the...
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of mandatory disability pay gap reporting on the disability employment gap.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of mandatory disability pay gap reporting on the disability employment gap.
We are committed to delivering our manifesto commitment to introduce mandatory disability pay gap reporting for large employers, and we will introduce legislation as soon as parliamentary time allows. Disability pay gap reporting, including workforce reporting and action plans, will improve transparency and provide vital data to help employers understand their workforces better, and identify and address disability pay gaps where they exist by adopting more inclusive practices, while avoiding unintended consequences.
On 25 March, we published the pay gap reporting consultation response, which shows how the new policy may work, alongside our green rated impact assessment. The proposed approach would require employers with 250 or more employees to report their disability pay gaps, report workforce composition by disability, and take actions to address pay gaps to make workplaces more inclusive for disabled people.
The disability employment gap remains too high. We are aiming for our range of policy initiatives to lead to its reduction.
To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, whether her Department has assessed employer attitudes towards disabled employees and the extent to which such attitudes affect recruitment and retention.
To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, whether her Department has assessed employer attitudes towards disabled employees and the extent to which such attitudes affect recruitment and retention.
Under the Equality Act 2010 (the 2010 Act) it is unlawful for an employer to discriminate against disabled employees and applicants. Specifically, employers are required to make reasonable adjustments in relation to the disabled employee’s job or during the recruitment process, which ensure that disabled employees are not placed at a substantial disadvantage compared to their non-disabled colleagues. Failure to make reasonable adjustments for a disabled employee or job seeker, or discounting a job application simply because the applicant is disabled, could amount to direct disability discrimination under the 2010 Act.
The EHRC has published guidance for employers on supporting employees with reasonable adjustments: https://www.equalityhumanrights.com/guidance/supporting-disabled-workers-hybrid-working-guidance-employers and https://www.equalityhumanrights.com/guidance/business/employing-people-workplace-adjustments.
The Government also supports a range of initiatives to improve disability inclusion at work.
This includes the Access to Work Scheme (AtW), a demand-led, personalised discretionary grant which supports the recruitment and retention of disabled people in employment. AtW provides grant funding to disabled people, as well as those with a health condition and supports workplace adjustments that go beyond what would normally be expected from an employer through their duty to provide reasonable adjustments as outlined in the 2010 Act.
In addition, to retain disabled employees, the Disability Confident scheme encourages employers to create disability inclusive workplaces and to support disabled people to get work and get on in work.
The June 2026 update to the Keep Britain Working review has reported that over 250 employers, providers and other organisations are working together, with better disability employment participation as one of the Review’s central objectives. Work is under way with Vanguard organisations and academic partners to improve measurement of disability participation, creating the outcome-focused foundations for more inclusive practices across UK employers.
We are also changing legislation through the Employment Rights Act 2025 to make it more likely that flexible working requests are accepted by introducing a reasonableness test. These changes will take effect in 2027.
We continue to monitor and support legislation to help ensure that people with disabilities are treated fairly in employment application processes and in the workplace.
That this House celebrates Disability Pride Month, an annual opportunity to recognise the identities, culture, achievements and contributions of disabled people across the United Kingdom and around the world; notes that the Disability Pride movement, which originated in the United States, was established in the UK in 2015 and has continued to grow through community-led events and campaigns; further notes that around twenty five per cent of the population are disabled, making disabled people the largest minority group in the country; believes that disability is a natural and valued part of human diversity and that everyone should be able to live with dignity, equality and pride; acknowledges the barriers, discrimination and stigma that many disabled people continue to face in everyday life; and commends the work of disabled people, Disabled People's Organisations, campaigners, advocates, allies and community groups across the UK in advancing equality, challenging discrimination and promoting disability pride, visibility and inclusion throughout society.
That this House celebrates Disability Pride Month, an annual opportunity to recognise the identities, culture, achievements and contributions of disabled people across the United Kingdom and around the world; notes that the Disability Pride movement, which originated in the United States, was established in the UK in 2015 and has...
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.
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.
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 annually by DWP, allow the Government to monitor progress in narrowing the gap.
The Department has a range of specialist initiatives to support disabled people to stay in work and get back into work, including those that join up employment and health systems. Measures include support from Work Coaches and Disability Employment Advisers in Jobcentres and Access to Work grants, as well as joining up health and employment support around the individual through Employment Advisors in NHS Talking Therapies, Connect to Work and WorkWell.
To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, what priority the Government has assigned to extending pay gap reporting beyond gender to include race and disability.
To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, what priority the Government has assigned to extending pay gap reporting beyond gender to include race and disability.
We will bring ethnicity and disability pay gap legislation forward as soon as parliamentary time allows. In March 2026 we published the government response to the mandatory ethnicity and disability pay gap reporting consultation, which included indicative clauses to show how the new legislation may look.
We are also working at pace to deliver the manifesto and Make Work Pay commitments to equal pay reform. It is important that the law works for everyone and so we plan to conduct further engagement on these proposals to ensure we get them right.
To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, whether the Government plans to introduce mandatory disability pay gap reporting; whether this will be included within the scope of the proposed Equality (Race and Disability) Bill; and what the expected timetable is for its implementation.
To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, whether the Government plans to introduce mandatory disability pay gap reporting; whether this will be included within the scope of the proposed Equality (Race and Disability) Bill; and what the expected timetable is for its implementation.
We will bring ethnicity and disability pay gap legislation forward as soon as parliamentary time allows. In March 2026 we published the government response to the mandatory ethnicity and disability pay gap reporting consultation, which included indicative clauses to show how the new legislation may look.
We are also working at pace to deliver the manifesto and Make Work Pay commitments to equal pay reform. It is important that the law works for everyone and so we plan to conduct further engagement on these proposals to ensure we get them right.
To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, what assessment she has made of the reasons for the delay in bringing forward the Equality (Race and Disability) Bill; and whether she plans to include this Bill in the forthcoming parliamentary timetable.
To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, what assessment she has made of the reasons for the delay in bringing forward the Equality (Race and Disability) Bill; and whether she plans to include this Bill in the forthcoming parliamentary timetable.
We will bring ethnicity and disability pay gap legislation forward as soon as parliamentary time allows. In March 2026 we published the government response to the mandatory ethnicity and disability pay gap reporting consultation, which included indicative clauses to show how the new legislation may look.
We are also working at pace to deliver the manifesto and Make Work Pay commitments to equal pay reform. It is important that the law works for everyone and so we plan to conduct further engagement on these proposals to ensure we get them right.
That this House recognises the importance of ensuring that disabled people are able to participate fully in democratic life and contest elections on an equal basis with others; notes that disabled candidates can experience significant additional costs when seeking election, including for accessible transport, communication support, personal assistance and adapted campaign materials; further notes that providing support to cover these additional costs is essential to enable disabled people to contest elections on a level playing field with other non-disabled candidates; acknowledges the previous Access to Elected Office Fund and the positive role it played in supporting disabled candidates to participate in elections; believes that democracy is strengthened when elected representatives better reflect society and the communities they serve; and calls on the Government to work with disabled people, political parties, the Electoral Commission and civil society organisations to identify and implement measures to improve accessibility, inclusion and remove barriers to disabled people contesting elections.
That this House recognises the importance of ensuring that disabled people are able to participate fully in democratic life and contest elections on an equal basis with others; notes that disabled candidates can experience significant additional costs when seeking election, including for accessible transport, communication support, personal assistance and adapted...
I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman, a fellow member of the Health and Social Care Committee, for giving way. Is he not making two contradictory points, however? He says on the one hand that it should be legally enforceable—a point with which I entirely agree, particularly as nearly 99%...
I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman, a fellow member of the Health and Social Care Committee, for giving way. Is he not making two contradictory points, however? He says on the one hand that it should be legally enforceable—a point with which I entirely agree, particularly as nearly 99%...
Will the hon. Member give way?
Will the hon. Member give way?
I am very grateful to the hon. Member for giving way, and congratulate her on having been a great Health Minister—I was sorry that she stood aside. She will be aware that there is a party whose Members are not present this evening. A lot of people in the media...
I am very grateful to the hon. Member for giving way, and congratulate her on having been a great Health Minister—I was sorry that she stood aside. She will be aware that there is a party whose Members are not present this evening. A lot of people in the media...
Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker—in fact, I made a number of interventions in place of my speech. I wanted to respond to the hon. Member for West Lancashire (Ashley Dalton), because she was making a very strong case about the need to ensure that these reforms are forced through. The...
Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker—in fact, I made a number of interventions in place of my speech. I wanted to respond to the hon. Member for West Lancashire (Ashley Dalton), because she was making a very strong case about the need to ensure that these reforms are forced through. The...
I absolutely agree. What worries us most is the fact that parents have to be sharp-elbowed enough to take on the tribunal system, which is no mean feat. What worries me is how many other parents do not have the confidence to challenge decisions, to use the tribunal system, to...
I absolutely agree. What worries us most is the fact that parents have to be sharp-elbowed enough to take on the tribunal system, which is no mean feat. What worries me is how many other parents do not have the confidence to challenge decisions, to use the tribunal system, to...
The Minister constantly says that she does not recognise the figures when presented with what are expected to be the settlements for certain local authorities. That is possibly because we are fumbling in the dark today, as the figures simply are not available. I had to go to the Vote...
The Minister constantly says that she does not recognise the figures when presented with what are expected to be the settlements for certain local authorities. That is possibly because we are fumbling in the dark today, as the figures simply are not available. I had to go to the Vote...