Employment: Disability
2026-06-21 · Department for Work and Pensions · 11931 · Official question
Question
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment has been made of the economic contribution of disabled workers.
Answer
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 ...