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The Department, and the Department of Health & Social Care, ran a consultation from July...

Conclusion
The Department, and the Department of Health & Social Care, ran a consultation from July to October 2019 seeking views on the different ways in which government and employers can reduce ill health-related job losses.54 The Department has committed to producing a Green Paper on the topic and a related National Strategy for Disabled People and told the Work and Pensions Select Committee in May 2021 that the Green Paper was very close to being ready and that, were it not for the pandemic, it would have been launched just before Summer 2020.55 After we asked about progress on this in our evidence session, the Department published the Green Paper Shaping Future Support – The Health and Disability Green Paper, on 20 July 2021. The Green Paper said that the National Disability Strategy would be published “shortly”, and that this will “outline practical changes to tackle the day-to-day challenges disabled people face” and “set out the Government’s vision to transform the lives of disabled people by tacking action across Government and wider society.56
Government Response

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Addressee Bodies
HM Treasury
Timeline
Recommendation age 5.0 yrs
Report published 08 Sep 2021