asked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will give, for each regional health authority, the number of registered disabled people employed by the health authority as a proportion of its total work force.

The majority of NHS stall are employed by area health authorities, and, as my hon. Friend told the hon. Member for Exeter (Mr. Hannam) in reply to his Question on 14th March—[Vol. 928, c. 89]—the percentages of employees of each authority who are registered as disabled will be published in the March edition of the Department of Employment Gazette. Similar information about the staff of each regional health authority is included.