Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if she will make it her policy to work with Cabinet colleagues to require disability signage to include an upright stick figure on signage to raise awareness of hidden disabilities; and if she will make a statement.

We have no current plans to do so. In 2019/20 the Cabinet Office’s Disability Unit, the British Standards Institute and other stakeholders considered the development of a new non-visible disability sign. However, agreement was not reached at that time and there are no current plans for further development.

Under the Equality Act 2010, certain organisations, such as those providing health and social care for disabled people, must make reasonable adjustments to remove barriers which may be experienced by disabled people, including in relation to signage.