questionText: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the report by the Equality and Human Rights Commission entitled Seven Years On: disabled people’s rights to independent living, employment and standard of living in the UK, published on 17 August 2023, if he will make an assessment of the implications for his policies of the conclusions of that report on the Government's progress in implementing the recommendations of the report by the UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities entitled Inquiry concerning the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland carried out by the Committee under article 6 of the Optional Protocol to the Convention, published in October 2017.
answerText: We note the report by the Equality and Human Rights Commission entitled “Seven Years On: disabled people’s rights to independent living, employment and standard of living in the UK”, published on 17 August 2023. This Government is committed to the UN Conv...
heading: UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities