, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Disability and employment: evidence session 2
Okay, thank you very much indeed. If there are no further questions from Members, I'd like to thank you very much indeed for your contributions. We'll send you a transcript, so feel free to amend it if we've recorded your contribution incorrectly. Otherwise…
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Disability and employment: evidence session 2
Thank you for that. Sioned.
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Disability and employment: evidence session 2
Indeed.
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Disability and employment: evidence session 2
Well, in the long term, there are things like the minimum income guarantee could be a way of ensuring that everybody could work in some shape or form. But, anyway—
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Disability and employment: evidence session 2
Okay.
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Disability and employment: evidence session 2
Thank you. Mark, you wanted to come in.
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Disability and employment: evidence session 2
And how do you define 'mental health issues'? Because one in four people are going to have a mental crisis during their lifetime, and you hope that it's going to be rare and never repeated. But other people will have enduring mental health problems, which…
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Disability and employment: evidence session 2
Okay.
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Disability and employment: evidence session 2
There's just such a huge range of disability. Some things are easy to measure, like visual ability. We test it in a range of ways, from when a child enters school, and whether or not you can see a number plate at a sufficient distance to be able to drive. But…
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Disability and employment: evidence session 2
Okay. Joel James.
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Disability and employment: evidence session 2
Victoria.
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Disability and employment: evidence session 2
Victoria.
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Disability and employment: evidence session 2
Thank you. Can I move on to Mick Antoniw?
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Disability and employment: evidence session 2
Thank you for mentioning that. I'd just like to follow up and ask—. Most people should have the dignity of work. Clearly, somebody may be so unwell or so disabled that they can't work. But, for those who have a learning disability that gives them an…
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Disability and employment: evidence session 2
Thank you very much. Mick Antoniw. Sorry, Mark Bryan, you wanted to add.
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Disability and employment: evidence session 2
Okay. We'll move on to Sioned Williams. I'll come back to that if we have time.
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Disability and employment: evidence session 2
Okay. And what impact would the legislation that the UK Government's proposing to extend the gender pay gap reporting to disability have—would that then give you a much better data set of what was going on? Because if we don't know—. We can't evaluate…
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Disability and employment: evidence session 2
I mean—. Victoria.
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Disability and employment: evidence session 2
Okay. I just want to ask about the in-work inequalities, because obviously there's a lot of focus, by Governments, on ticking the box for getting disabled people into work, but much less of a focus on the success in retaining that work and also being able to…
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Disability and employment: evidence session 2
Thank you. Obviously, this is a very big subject and we could spend half an hour on this, but let's just pick up some of the points you've mentioned in specific areas of questioning. Julie Morgan.
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Disability and employment: evidence session 2
Ruth, did you want to come in at this point?
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Disability and employment: evidence session 2
I beg your pardon, Mark. Please do go ahead.
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Disability and employment: evidence session 2
Da iawn. Jane, did you want to—?
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Disability and employment: evidence session 2
Professor Wass.
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Disability and employment: evidence session 2
Jane Dodds, did you have any further questions at this point?
