Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the policy paper entitled Transforming Support: The Health and Disability White Paper published on 15 March 2023, when the Department expects to make a decision on whether its framework for autistic customers can be rolled out across the whole network of Jobcentres.

Improving the services that Jobcentres deliver to people with autism is a key part of ensuring customers with autism get the support they need, in the way they need it. Our autism accreditation test helped to build the knowledge and skills of our work coaches and improve our processes and systems to better support autistic jobseekers. We are now exploring whether we can roll out this accreditation across the whole Jobcentre network.