Employment: Chronic Illnesses and Disability
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of the employment support package set out in the Pathways to Work Green Paper on employment outcomes of (a) disabled people and (b) people with health conditions.
Answered by Sir Stephen Timms
The government has announced an additional £1.9 billion in funding for employment-related support between 2026/27 and 2029/30, for disabled people and those with health conditions. This will ensure that support is available from next year as benefit changes come in, and can be offered to anyone affected by those changes.
This support will be based on existing evidence of what works and comes on top of redeploying one thousand wok coaches helping sixty five thousand find jobs, Connect to Work helping one hundred thousand, and Work Well helping fifty six thousand.
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