Working-Age Disabled Adults Debate

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Lord Bishop of London

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Working-Age Disabled Adults

Lord Bishop of London Excerpts
Monday 24th June 2019

(4 years, 10 months ago)

Lords Chamber
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Baroness Barran Portrait Baroness Barran
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The noble Baroness is right that that strategy has not been produced. However, a huge amount of work is going on across key government departments—housing, health and social care and DWP—to try to address many of the issues to which she refers.

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My Lords, the UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities has recently stated that the UK was going backwards in terms of independent living and went on to say that it was a human catastrophe. In the Minister’s view, are we are doing enough to involve disabled people in producing, designing and providing better solutions for independent living?

Baroness Barran Portrait Baroness Barran
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The co-creation of services to which the right reverend Prelate refers is a crucial part of our work going forward and that taking place in relation to the Green Paper.