My Lords, if you are blind or sight impaired, in the UK currently the employment rate is just 27%. If you are not disabled, it is 83%. Therefore, if you are sight impaired you have only around a one in four chance of being in work. This cannot continue. Will the Minister strongly consider establishing a taskforce to look at the issues and identify scalable solutions to close this pernicious gap that blights individual lives and scars our economy and society? To be clear: this is not a party-political point. No Government have gripped it. Will this one? Here is the rub: currently, if you are blind or sight impaired in the UK, talent is everywhere, opportunity is not.
