Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether rights under the UN Convention on Rights of Disabled People will continue to have primacy in UK law after the UK leaves the EU.

The UK’s decision to leave the European Union does not change its commitment to ensuring the rights and liberties of disabled people are protected domestically and to fulfilling its international obligations. The UK Government ratified the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in 2009 and remains committed to the Convention and to the progressive realisation of the rights for disabled people that it sets out.