I have had to give interviews to candidates who are not suitable merely because they were disabled excluding an able bodied candidate to do so.

It's not fair. Selection should be on merit alone.

Talking of pay gaps, it was nice to see Harman given a official warning for once again exaggerating statistics – this government really cannot be trusted to tell the truth, with Harmn being the worst of the lot.

I read the debate and found your EDM 1547. My enquires hopefully will see David Borrows MP & Diane Abbott MP also sign your motion and Evan Harris MP responded that he will be signing it. I have encouraged users of my site, http://www.tcell.org.uk to write to their MP's to also get them to sign. I wish I could hope my MP will sign but I have no grounds to do so.

This is a key issue affecting many disabled people, if we are interested in equality than employment is on merit. A pre-employment questionaire merely gives employers an "out" from employing the right person just because they have a disability. I wonder how difficult it would be to seek a solution here using the DDA.

For smaller businesses where cost is an issue than the government needs to offer financial support to them to negate the costs of any reasonable adjustment that carries a substantial cost to them. Larger business of course are able to more readily absorb these costs. However, most changes cost very little if anything.

Once a job offer has been made then a discussion on facilitating that employment could be held.

You have been a champion here and I thank you.

John

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