Employment: Chronic Illnesses and Disability
Commons · Question 55161 · Tabled 30 May 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions · Official record
Answered 9 Jun 2025
Question
Asked by Andrew Snowden
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the White Paper entitled Get Britain Working, published 26 November 2024, what metrics her Department is using to measure progress in increasing employment among (a) disabled people an
Answer
Answered by Sir Stephen Timms, 9 Jun 2025
The Government has a clear ambition to raise the employment rate to 80% and has published a set of key indicators that it will monitor closely as it carries out this work. These will build on aims set out in the Prime Minister’s Plan for Change and the Ge...