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1: Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi (Lab - Slough) I beg to move,That this House has considered Personal Independence Payment and other disability benefits.It - Speech Link
2: Ben Lake (PC - Ceredigion) I have a constituent who until 2016 was in receipt of disability living allowance. - Speech Link
3: Marion Fellows (SNP - Motherwell and Wishaw) payment, the child disability payment and the carer support payment. - Speech Link
4: Mims Davies (Con - Mid Sussex) I am absolutely delighted about what we have done around disability employment. - Speech Link
Disabled people face significant barriers to work that non-disabled people do not, and despite employers having a legal duty to make reasonable adjustments in the workplace to accommodate them, there is evidence to suggest that many are not making these changes. Whilst the disability employment rate has risen in recent …
Mentions:
1: None If we look at those with a disability, whether that be a learning disability or a physical disability - Speech Link
2: None They have to ask about disclosing disability. - Speech Link
3: None People focus heavily on the disability confident scheme. - Speech Link
4: None We, as a nation, do not focus enough on the disability employment gap and we do not talk about the disability - Speech Link
5: None If you are supporting a person with a disability, there is a clear understanding that the disability - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Baker, Claire (Lab - Mid Scotland and Fife) I come to Angela Matthews, who is here from the Business Disability Forum. - Speech Link
2: Chapman, Maggie (Green - North East Scotland) You raise an interesting point on the ambitions to halve the disability employment gap. - Speech Link
3: None Disabled people do not feel that halving the disability employment gap is a great ambition. - Speech Link
4: None That is partly why we have the adult disability payment now, in Scotland. - Speech Link
Written Evidence Apr. 26 2024
Inquiry: Disability employmentFound: DYE0053 - Disability employment Disability Rights UK Written Evidence
Written Evidence Apr. 26 2024
Inquiry: Disability employmentFound: DYE0044 - Disability employment Business Disability Forum Written Evidence
Mentions:
1: Caroline Nokes (Con - Romsey and Southampton North) There are disability champions across every Government Department, and of course there is the disability - Speech Link
2: Marion Fellows (SNP - Motherwell and Wishaw) payment and child disability payment. - Speech Link
3: Alicia Kearns (Con - Rutland and Melton) I welcome the disability action plan. - Speech Link
4: Mark Pritchard (Con - The Wrekin) I welcome the disability action plan. - Speech Link
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1: None The disability action plan will be taken forward in parallel with the national disability strategy. - Speech Link
2: None As well as the disability action plan and the national disability strategy, the Government are already - Speech Link
3: Baroness Sherlock (Lab - Life peer) disability benefits. - Speech Link
4: Viscount Younger of Leckie (Con - Excepted Hereditary) Jumping forward, on 5 February 2024, the Government published the Disability Action Plan.The Disability - Speech Link
Mar. 25 2024
Source Page: The Disability Assistance (Scottish Adult Disability Living Allowance) Regulations 2024Found: The Disability Assistance (Scottish Adult Disability Living Allowance) Regulations 2024
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1: Stevenson, Collette (SNP - East Kilbride) Our next agenda item is a presentation on the additional costs of disability in Scotland. - Speech Link
2: None A bit later, we will talk about severity of disability. - Speech Link
3: None We already referenced other qualitative research from the Glasgow Disability Alliance. - Speech Link
4: Balfour, Jeremy (Con - Lothian) Would you increase the disability payment, or would you target that money in some way? - Speech Link
5: None definitely be good to look at types of disability. - Speech Link