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Marcus Jones Excerpts
Monday 26th January 2015

(9 years, 3 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Marcus Jones Portrait Mr Marcus Jones (Nuneaton) (Con)
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Not all employers appreciate the social importance and value to the work force that employing disabled people can bring. What more are the Government doing to try to encourage employers to take on disabled people, and to help them into work?

Mark Harper Portrait Mr Harper
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I think that our Disability Confident campaign has contributed to the fact that more than a quarter of a million extra disabled people have started work over the last year. I am also considering improvements that we can make to the Access to Work service, which plays an important role in helping people either to stay in work or to return to it.