Select committee: Work and Pensions Committee
Recommendation 5
7th Report - Employment support for disabled people: Disability at Work
Published 21 May 2026
Addressed to Department for Work and Pensions
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Recommendation (the committee's words)
To ensure that no disabled person misses out on reasonable adjustments through a lack of awareness or confidence, the government should require employers to provide all new employees, whether they know them to be disabled or not, with information about the rights of disabled people at work, including the right to request reasonable adjustments, and of sources of support and advocacy. It should also run an extensive awareness-raising campaign across radio, social media and television. Finally, it should increase funding to the Equality and Human Rights Commission. If it cannot do this, it should explain how it thinks the EHRC can be expected to carry out its functions properly within its current budget. (Recommendation, Paragraph 36) Keep Britain Working
From: Work and Pensions Committee, 7th Report - Employment support for disabled people: Disability at Work (HC 1227), 21 May 2026
Government response
The government responded to the whole report on 10 September 2026 (deadline 21 July 2026).
Summary written by Accountability Index from the government's response. It is not the government's own words.The government accepts some recommendations in full and others in part, saying that problems with reasonable adjustments reflect "a gap in understanding" rather than a gap in the law.
- On written responses to adjustment requests and information for all new employees, it does "not currently intend" to legislate for the information requirement, saying the issue is "best addressed by improving understanding of the current duties".
- It accepts the recommendation on assistive technology: the Disability Unit will launch a call for evidence "later this year" and then set out plans, including considering what form a potential centre might take.
- It accepts the recommendation on Workplace Health Provision, stating "It is our intention to set out the nature of Workplace Health Provision (WHP) by the end of the year".
- It accepts the recommendation on mandatory disability pay gap reporting, with legislation to be introduced "as soon as parliamentary time allows".