Work and Pensions Committee
Oral evidence: Disability employment, HC 591
Wednesday 1 May 2024
Members present: Sir (Chair); ; ; ; ; Sir .
Witnesses
I: Nic Murray, Policy
Manager, Leonard Cheshire; Laura Davis, Chief Executive
Officer, British Associate of Supported Employment; and Kim
Hoque, Professor of Human Resource Management, King's College
London, and founding member of Disability@Work.
II: Professor Helen
Lawton Smith, Professor of Entrepreneurship, Birkbeck, University
of London; Jacqueline Winstanley, Chief Executive Officer,
Universal Inclusion; Dr Christine Grant, Associate Professor
(Research), Centre for Healthcare and Communities, Coventry
University; and Professor Ian Burn, Professor of Economics
and Chair in Applied Microeconomics, University of Liverpool.
Extract
Q 67. Chair: On the access to finance point, you were saying that
in some regions things are perhaps better than others. Are we
making progress generally for disabled entrepreneurs in being
able to access finance?
Professor Lawton Smith:...There is this understanding that across
the piece the Lending Standards Board that Jacqueline has
mentioned, but also the British Business Bank has done quite a
lot of work on diversity and organisations such as Lloyds
Bank.
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