Employment: Disability
(asked on 6th March 2023) - View Source
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent estimate his Department has made of the level of the disability employment gap.
This question was answered on 6th March 2023
The latest estimates from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) show that the disability employment gap was 29.6 percentage points in October to September 2022. This is an increase of 0.6 percentage points on the year and an overall decrease of 4.2 percentage points since the same quarter in 2013.
Source: A08: Labour market status of disabled people - Office for National Statistics (ons.gov.uk).