Health: Employment
(asked on 25th January 2023) - View Source
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the single largest cause of sickness-related economic inactivity.
This question was answered on 31st January 2023
There are often multiple and complex reasons why a person is economically inactive due to long-term sickness. They are also likely to face several barriers in returning to the labour market. For example, they are:
- Likely to have multiple long-term health conditions (80% report more than one condition);
- More likely to have no qualifications (30% compared to 16% of people inactive for any reason); and
- Unlikely to have worked for some time (67% have not worked in the last two years).
Source: Employment of disabled people 2022 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).