Anne Main calls on the Government to encourage a scheme similar to that operated by mental health charity Mind which enabled people with spasmodic mental health illnesses to be able to work flexibly.

Mrs Anne Main (St Albans) (Con): Will the Minister encourage a scheme that Mind had—the “way to work” campaign—under which people with spasmodic mental health illnesses could work flexibly? It was not taken up as well as it could have been by employers, and it would help people who are assessed as having periods of good health as well as ill health.

Mr Hoban: My hon. Friend rightly says that we need to find ways to help people with mental health conditions, and other conditions, back into employment—the work we do under the Work programme is part of that, but other interventions are also being made—because there is a strong link between work and good health outcomes.

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