Employment: Epilepsy

(asked on 6th March 2023) - View Source

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the number of people with epilepsy in long-term employment.


Answered by
Tom Pursglove Portrait
Tom Pursglove
Minister of State (Minister for Legal Migration and Delivery)
This question was answered on 13th March 2023

Estimates from the Annual Population Survey (APS) show that there were 177,000 individuals of working-age (16 to 64) in the UK who reported epilepsy as their main long-term health condition in 2021/22 (Employment of disabled people 2022 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk) - Table POP003. Of these, approximately 96,000 (55%) were in employment, with 83% (80,000) of those employed for 12 months or more. There is no recognised definition of long-term employment. 12 months or more has been used because this is the length of time used to define long-term unemployment.

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