Oral Question·Department for Education
“If he will make a statement on his departmental responsibilities.”
Tabled: 8 March 2022Answered: 14 March 2022
Asked by
Kim Leadbeater
Labour — Spen Valley
Answering Minister
the Secretary of State for Education
Answer from Hansard
Sir Stephen Timms
The hon. Member raises an important point, and I agree about the importance of not wasting talent in the future. That is the reason for the reforms we are introducing. Earlier this year we set up an expert panel to advise us on how best to support people with neurodivergence into employment, building on the work of Sir Robert Buckland and his review of autism employment in the last Parliament. We have now received that advice from the expert panel and are considering how to take that work forward.