Inactive Benefits

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Work and Pensions – in the House of Commons at 2:30 pm on 23 April 2007.

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Photo of Jim Murphy Jim Murphy Minister of State (Department for Work and Pensions) (Work) 2:30, 23 April 2007

I know how carefully my hon. Friend looks at all those issues, and she has spoken to me before about the Mindful Employer experience in her Constituency. She is absolutely right, and there are some extremely enlightened attitudes among employers small and large across the United Kingdom who are doing an awful lot to support people with a mental illness as well as people with a learning disability, who have traditionally been excluded from the labour market. I am happy to listen further to my hon. Friend's experiences to see what more we can do to embed those reforms so that they genuinely support those with a fluctuating mental health condition.

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