Employment: Epilepsy

(asked on 30th December 2020) - View Source

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate she has made of the number of companies in Scotland with employees who have active epilepsy.


Answered by
Justin Tomlinson Portrait
Justin Tomlinson
This question was answered on 11th January 2021

The specific information requested is not held by the Department for Work and Pensions.

Background

The number of disabled people (aged 16 to 64) in the UK who are employed and report epilepsy as their main health condition is 38,0001. Sample sizes are too small to draw robust estimates for Scotland from this data.

1Figure shown in table 3.3 of ‘The employment of disabled people 2019’ Official Statistics publication using data from Annual Population Survey, April 2018 to March 2019. This can be found at: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/the-employment-of-disabled-people-2019.

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