Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent assessment she has made of compliance with the duty to make reasonable adjustments for disabled people under the Equality Act 2010.
The department is committed to providing services which embrace diversity and promote equality of opportunity. This means we need to take steps to ensure that our customers have access to reasonable adjustments, and we often provide additional support to enable them to access benefits and our services. We regularly hold discussions of this kind with stakeholders and statutory bodies in order to improve our services.
The department has in place a wide range of reasonable adjustments for customers, including: