Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department is taking to enable disable people to contribute their experiences into the process for compiling the planned disability White Paper.

The Health and Disability Green Paper proposals will be detailed in the White Paper set to publish in mid-2022.

More than 40 events with disabled people, people with health conditions and their representatives were held throughout the consultation period for ‘Shaping Future Support: The Health and Disability Green Paper’. This was to ensure that their views shaped the content of the consultation.

The responses to the Health and Disability Green Paper will be analysed to determine suitable proposals for improvement in the health and disability space and wider benefit reform. We continue to engage stakeholders regularly, particularly on the broader aspects of the paper that focus on future reform.

The Government published the National Disability Strategy which aims to improve disabled people’s everyday lives. The strategy sets out a very wide-ranging set of cross-government practical actions to improve the lives of disabled people, across jobs, education, housing,

transport, shopping, culture, justice, public services, and data and evidence.

The National Disability Strategy committed to review the way the UK government engages with disabled people, in discussion with disabled people, disabled people’s organisations and charities. That work is already underway.

The National Disability Strategy committed to publishing an annual report in summer 2022, which will detail the progress made against all commitments.