Oral QuestionDepartment for Work and Pensions

If he will make a statement on his departmental responsibilities.

Tabled: 21 October 2025Answered: 27 October 2025

Asked by

Sarah Dyke

Liberal DemocratGlastonbury and Somerton

Answering Minister

the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions

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.