Remploy

As an amendment to motion S4M-05019 in the name of Fergus Ewing (Remploy), leave out from “calls for” to end and insert “notes the UK Government’s decision to close a number of Remploy factories that make significant losses year after year, in line with the recommendations in Getting in, staying in and getting on: Disability employment support fit for the future, a review carried out by Liz Sayce, the chief executive of Disability Rights UK, which advised that disability employment services should be focused on disabled people themselves rather than institutions so that they can access mainstream jobs in the same way as everyone else; accepts that, while the independent expert report highlighted that several Remploy factories were not economically viable in their existing form, the Department for Work and Pensions has negotiated extensively to secure a future for those enterprise businesses capable of existing outside of government control; welcomes the £8 million package of tailored support that will be available from the UK Government to help Remploy employees with the transition for up to 18 months; welcomes the use of Partnership Action for Continuing Employment to complement existing measures to support those made redundant to get back into the workforce, and commends the work of the Remploy employment service, which has supported over 35,000 disabled and disadvantaged people into work across Great Britain in the last two years and works in partnership with over 2,500 employers."