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Question for Department for Work and Pensions

UIN 86094, tabled on 7 September 2020

Question

Marion Fellows
Scottish National Party
Motherwell and Wishaw
Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what progress she has made on the National Strategy for Disabled People.

Answer

Justin Tomlinson
Conservative
North Swindon
Commons

Answered on

10 September 2020

The National Strategy for Disabled People is a key manifesto commitment for this Government and its delivery remains important for ministers, including No. 10. Its significance is even greater, as we re-build the UK's economy and society in response to the Covid-19 pandemic.

We want to achieve practical changes for disabled people, which remove barriers and increase opportunity, and are engaging widely with stakeholders including via Ministerial and official-led roundtables, a Disabled People’s Organisations forum, our Regional Stakeholder Network, and other meetings. We will also, through online engagement and other routes, enable disabled people to directly share views and insights on key challenges, as a central voice as the Strategy is developed. Through this work and further engagement, we plan to publish the high ambition strategy that the Prime Minister has called for in Spring 2021.

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