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We welcome the publication of the Government’s response to the Health is everyone’s business consultation,...

Recommendation
We welcome the publication of the Government’s response to the Health is everyone’s business consultation, which closed in 2019. We look forward to scrutinising the Government’s proposals in greater detail, particularly on improving access to occupational health for people in smaller businesses, which may not have dedicated HR functions. We recommend that the Government set out, in response to this report, more detail about its plans to test and evaluate the impact of a subsidy for SMEs and the self-employed, including its planned timetable.
Government Response Summary
The government states that detailed proposals from the Green Paper consultation will be brought forward in a White Paper in 2022, focusing on the benefits system and enabling people to work independently. This response does not provide the specific detail or timetable requested for testing and evaluating a subsidy for SMEs and the self-employed regarding occupational health.
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Government Response
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HM Government Not Addressed
The Green Paper explores how the benefits system can better meet the needs of claimants now and in the future by improving claimant experience of our services, enabling independent living, and improving employment outcomes. We are now analysing the responses. Detailed proposals will be brought forward in a White Paper in 2022, setting out how we can better enable people to take up work and live more independently, and outline the changes we want to make to the benefits system to better address structural and delivery challenges. Disability employment gap: Government response 25 Sanctions
Source
Committee Work and Pensions Committee
Inquiry Disability employment gap
Report Second Report - Disability employment gap 30 Jul 2021 HC 189
View on Parliament website
Addressee Bodies
Department for Work and Pensions
Timeline
Recommendation age 5.0 yrs
Report published 30 Jul 2021