Women and Equalities Committee
11 November 2026
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Women and Equalities Committee Actual start House of Commons
Follow its sittings25:51 - 26:41
Speaker 1
Good afternoon and welcome to the Women and Equalities Select Committee. Today we are holding a session for our inquiry on flexible working and disability, which forms part of the committee's series of inquiries looking at equality at work. And we're very grateful to you all for joining us this afternoon.
I should flag at the outset that we're expecting votes at 4:00, so we're going to try, if we can, to try and conclude questions before then, so that we're not interrupted, because it's two votes and it will be a lengthy interruption to our discussion. I'm really pleased today to be joined by Julie Dennis, Head of Inclusive Workplace Strategy and Policy at Acas. Welcome, Julie. John Kirkpatrick, Chief Executive Officer at the Equality and Human Rights Commission, thank you for joining us. Claire McCartney, Senior Policy Adviser at the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, the CIPD.
26:41 - 26:54
Speaker 3
And Ruth Wilkinson, Head of Policy and Public Affairs at Institution of Occupational Safety and Health. Thank you so much to all of you for coming this afternoon. Really looking forward to hearing from you, and I'm going to start off by handing over to Christine.
26:54 - 27:16
Speaker 4
Good afternoon, my name's Christine Jardine. I'm an MP from Edinburgh, and I wonder if we could start off talking about the equality impacts of return-to-work mandates. And if I could ask Claire and then Ruth, first of all, what steps you believe employers should take to ensure that disabled workers' needs are properly considered when changing home and hybrid working policies?
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