On Tuesday 20th November 2012, John McDonnell MP presented a Bill to
Parliament to change the law to allow MPs to job share. No vote was taken.
Research has been conducted on public attitudes towards job sharing for MPs. It shows women and younger people are more likely to be in favour, also Labour and Liberal Democrats are more likely to support job sharing for MPs than UKIP or Conservative voters. You can read the research here. Why not write to your MP and tell them what you think about job sharing for MPs?
Meanwhile the campaign continues.
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There are over 10 million disabled people in the UK. Yet there are only a handful of MPs who have declared that they are disabled.
Disabled people are far less likely to be in employment. In January 2016, the UK employment rate among working age disabled people was 46.5%, compared to 84.0% for non disabled people.
In the UK, the risk of poverty or social exclusion for disabled
people was 32.3%, compared to 18.8% for non-
people.
You can read more statistics about disability in the UK here.
Disability Politics UK is campaigning to get the law changed to enable Members of Parliament to job share – a crucial step in addressing the under-
We launched a second e-
Supporters
A number of MPs, journalists and campaigners are already supporting this campaign including:
John McDonnell MP
Heather Fisken -
Caroline Lucas MP
Margaret Hodge MP
Jo Brand -
Simon Woolley -
Angela Mason -
Miranda Whitehead -
Kamaljeet Jandu -
Frances Ryan
Deborah Orr
Sean Jones QC
Robin Allen QC
John Cavanagh QC
Mike Mansfield QC
Diane Mulligan OBE -
Michael Rubenstein -
and many more...
You can read more about John McDonnell's Bill on our Parliament page here.
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The Fawcett Society publishes new report supporting Job Sharing for MPs, please see -