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: Kate Dearden MP, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Minister for Employment Rights and Consumer Protection)
- Department for Culture, Media and Sport: Stephanie Peacock MP, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Minister for Sport, Tourism, Civil Society and Youth)
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Emma Hardy MP, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Minister for Water and Flooding)
- Department for Energy Security and Net Zero: Martin McCluskey MP, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Minister for Energy Consumers)
- Department for Education: to be confirmed
- Department for Transport: Simon Lightwood MP, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Minister for Roads and Buses)
- Department of Health and Social Care: Dr Zubir Ahmed MP, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State
- Department for Science, Innovation and Technology: to be confirmed
- Department for Work and Pensions: Rt Hon Sir Stephen Timms MP, Minister of State (Minister for Social Security and Disability)
- Foreign and Commonwealth Development Office: Seema Malhotra MP, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State and Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Minister for Equalities)
- HM Treasury: Lord Livermore, Financial Secretary to the Treasury
- Home Office: to be confirmed
- Ministry of Defence: Louise Sandher-Jones MP, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Minister for Veterans and People)
- Ministry of Justice (including Attorney General’s Office): Jake Richards MP, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State and Assistant Whip, House of Commons
- Office for Scotland: Kirsty McNeill MP, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Scotland
- Office for Northern Ireland: to be confirmed
- Office for Wales: Anna McMorrin MP, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Wales