Lead Ministers for Disability
Lead Ministers for Disability represent the interests of disabled people, and champion disability inclusion and accessibility across each government department, as they drive forward progress on the government’s manifesto commitments and 5 missions.
Their role is to:
- break down barriers to opportunity for disabled people right across the government’s long-term missions
- fulfil the manifesto commitment to ensure their departments put the views and voices of disabled people at the heart of everything they do
The Lead Ministers for Disability meet as a group regularly throughout the year. The chair is Rt Hon Sir Stephen Timms MP, Minister of State for Social Security and Disability.
The Lead Ministers for Disability are:
- Cabinet Office: to be confirmed
- Department for Business and Trade: to be confirmed
- Department for Culture, Media and Sport: Stephanie Peacock MP, Minister for Sport, Media, Civil Society and Youth
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Emma Hardy MP, Minister for Water and Flooding
- Department for Energy Security and Net Zero: to be confirmed
- Department for Education: to be confirmed
- Department for Transport: Simon Lightwood MP, Minister for Local Transport
- Department of Health and Social Care: Stephen Kinnock MP, Minister of State for Care
- Department for Science, Innovation and Technology: to be confirmed
- Department for Work and Pensions: Rt Hon Sir Stephen Timms MP, Minister of State for Social Security and Disability
- Foreign and Commonwealth Development Office: to be confirmed
- HM Treasury: Lord Livermore, Financial Secretary to the Treasury
- Home Office: to be confirmed
- Ministry of Defence: Alistair Carns OBE MC MP, Minister for Veterans and People
- Ministry of Justice (including Attorney General’s Office): to be confirmed
- Office for Scotland: Kirsty McNeill MP (Scottish Labour and Co-operative), Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Scotland
- Office for Northern Ireland: to be confirmed
- Office for Wales: to be confirmed