Written Question·Department for Work and Pensions·UIN 80155

Employment: Learning Disability and Neurodiversity

Tabled: 10 October 2025

Answered: 20 October 2025

Question

Charlotte Cane

Liberal Democrat — Ely and East Cambridgeshire

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps his Department is taking to help encourage businesses to increase the employment of (a) neurodivergent people and (b) people with learning disabilities.

Answer

Dame Diana Johnson

In its plan to Make Work Pay, the government committed to raising awareness of all forms of neurodiversity in the workplace. Employers have a key role to play in helping neurodivergent people and people with learning disabilities get into and thrive at wo...

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