Social Security Benefits: Disability

(asked on 9th October 2020) - View Source

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she is taking to ensure that people with experience of living with a disability are included in (a) her Department's planned consultation on disability benefits and (b) the cross-Government disability strategy.


Answered by
Justin Tomlinson Portrait
Justin Tomlinson
This question was answered on 14th October 2020

The government is committed to ensuring that the Health and Disability Green Paper and the National Strategy for Disabled People reflects the issues that disabled people want us to address.

We have held a significant number of events across the country with people with lived experience of a disability and of our services and we are continuing this engagement throughout the Autumn to directly influence the Green Paper content and the National Strategy. This engagement will continue following the publication of the Green Paper.

To support the National Strategy for Disabled People the Cabinet Office Disability Unit are engaging with disabled people's organisations, including through the Regional Stakeholder Network and the recently established Disabled People's Organisations Forum, and are encouraging Government Departments to better engage with stakeholders on policies that matter to disabled people.

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