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Employment: Autism

Commons · Question 45580 · Tabled 17 Apr 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions · Official record

Answered 28 Apr 2025

Question

Asked by Bob Blackman

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make it her policy to publish a target for the autism employment gap.

Answer

Answered by Alison McGovern, 28 Apr 2025

We recognise the current disability employment gap. As set out in the King’s Speech last July, the government is committed to making the right to equal pay effective for ethnic minority and disabled people and introducing mandatory ethnicity and disabilit...