Disability employment gap

Inquiry by the Work and Pensions Committee, 3 November 2020 to 2 February 2022. Its page on the Parliament website.

Reports and responses

• Large print - Disability employment gap (30 July 2021)
• Second Report - Disability employment gap (30 July 2021)
• Easy Read - Disability employment gap: summary (30 July 2021)
• Disability employment gap: Government Response to the Committee’s Second Report of Session 2021– 22 (22 November 2021)

Evidence sessions

• 20 January 2021: Joshua Reddaway, National Audit Office
• 20 January 2021: Dame Carol Black
• 24 February 2021: Professor Melanie Jones, Cardiff Business School; Dr Mark Bryan, University of Sheffield; Ben Baumberg Geiger, University of Kent; Tom Pollard
• 24 February 2021: James Taylor, Scope; Fazilet Hadi, Disability Rights UK; Gemma Hope, Leonard Cheshire
• 10 March 2021: Matthew Harrison, Mencap; Jane Harris, National Autistic Society; Lorenzo Torre, Three Cs
• 10 March 2021: David Stephenson, Mind; Alex Kennedy, Rethink Mental Illness; Dr Jed Boardman, Centre for Mental Health
• 24 March 2021: Matthew Ainsworth, Greater Manchester Combined Authority; Clare Gray, Shaw Trust; Huw Davies, British Association for Supported Employment
• 24 March 2021: Lord Shinkwin, The Centre for Social Justice Disability Commission; Angela Matthews, Business Disability Forum; Matthew Oakley, WPI Economics
• 28 April 2021: Sarah Rawlings, MS Society; Catherine Hale, Chronic Illness Inclusion Project; Professor Karen Walker-Bone, National Centre for Musculoskeletal Health and Work, Versus Arthritis
• 28 April 2021: Rob Geaney, Royal National Institute for Deaf People; Martin Sigsworth, Pocklington Trust; Daniel Jennings, Epilepsy Action
• 19 May 2021: Justin Tomlinson MP, Department for Work and Pensions; John Paul Marks, Department for Work and Pensions; Angus Gray, Department for Work and Pensions