Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to Part One of the National Disability Strategy published 28 July 2021, what progress the Disability Unit has made on developing a UK-wide campaign to increase public awareness and understanding of disability, dispel ingrained and unhelpful stereotypes and promote the diverse contributions disabled people have made, and continue to make, to public life.

The Disability Unit is progressing the development of a UK-wide campaign designed to increase public awareness and understanding of disability, and change perceptions and challenge unhelpful stereotypes and behaviours towards disabled people.

The Disability Unit appointed an independent agency in Autumn 2021 to conduct research to identify and better understand unhelpful stereotypes and perceptions, and the behaviours found to be most harmful to disabled people.