Select Committee · Women and Equalities Committee

National Disability Strategy

Status: Closed Opened: 26 May 2022 Closed: 30 May 2024 21 recommendations 13 conclusions 7 reports

A Women and Equalities Committee inquiry to scrutinise the implementation and further development of the Government’s National Disability Strategy , which was published in July 2021. Accessibility of products and services to disabled people Read the full report (HTML) Read the EasyRead report on accessibility (PDF 1374KB) Read the large print report on accessibility(PDF 566KB) …

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Reports

7 reports

Recommendations & Conclusions

1 item
7 Conclusion First Report - The National Disability … Not Addressed

Establish system to monitor and update disabled people on National Disability Strategy actions.

The act of appealing the High Court’s judgment on the lawfulness of the National Disability Strategy created many months of uncertainty and frustration for disabled people and their representative organisations. It was unclear why the Government chose to pause 14 policies in the strategy while allowing a hundred others to …

Government response. The government defends its decision to appeal the High Court judgment and its handling of the National Disability Strategy during that period, stating the appeal was successful and most policies continued. It does not address the committee's observation about needing …
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Oral evidence sessions

5 sessions
Date Witnesses
5 Jul 2023 David Nuttall · Department of Health and Social Care, Jennifer Heigham · Department for Work and Pensions, Marcus Bell · Cabinet Office, Maria Caulfield MP · Government Equalities Office, Tom Pursglove MP · Department for Work and Pensions View ↗
17 May 2023 Angela Matthews · Business Disability Forum, Eric Harris · Research Institute for Disabled Consumers, Tammy Jones · Purple, Vivienne Francis · The Royal Institute of Blind People View ↗
26 Apr 2023 Ciara Lawrence · The Royal Mencap Society, George Appleton · Care England, Jackie O'Sullivan · The Royal Mencap Society, Jim Blair, Maya Stretton · National Autistic Society, Tim Nicholls · National Autistic Society View ↗
29 Mar 2023 Fazilet Hadi · Disability Rights UK, Fran Springfield · Chronic Illness Inclusion, Lord Shinkwin · The Centre for Social Justice Disability Commission, Martin McLean · National Deaf Children’s Society, Nil Guzelgun · MIND, Svetlana Kotova · Inclusion London View ↗
22 Feb 2023 Women and Equalities Committee View ↗

Correspondence

5 letters
DateDirectionTitle
24 Jan 2024 Correspondence from the Minister for Skills, Apprenticeships and Higher Educati…
6 Sep 2023 To cttee Letter from the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department for He…
18 Jul 2023 To cttee Letter from the Minister of State for Disabled People, Health and Work on the N…
18 Jul 2023 To cttee Letter from the Minister of State for Disabled People, Health and Work on the N…
19 Oct 2022 Correspondence from the then Secretary of State for Work and Pensions relating …