Written Question·Department for Work and Pensions·UIN 80939

Reasonable Adjustments

Tabled: 10 October 2025
Answered: 23 October 2025

Question

Helen Maguire

Liberal Democrat — Epsom and Ewell

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of a right to request workplace modifications for employees not covered under the duty to make reasonable adjustments established in

Answer

Sir Stephen Timms
This Department has made no such assessment. Reasonable adjustments are changes an employer makes to remove or reduce a disadvantage related to someone's disability. All employers have a duty under the Equality Act 2010 to make ‘reasonable adjustments’ in...
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