Welfare Reform and Work Bill Committee Stage: Clauses 1 and 2

House of Lords

9th December 2015

In summary, the Commission encourages the Government to expand the employment reporting duty in Clause 1 to include a duty to measure and report on progress towards closing the disability employment gap. We also set out our support for Amendments which will place a duty on the Secretary of State to provide information broken down by protected characteristics annually, and to publish detailed information on the number of starts of disabled people in apprenticeships.

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Last Updated: 09 Dec 2015