To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry whether he has plans to propose legislation under which in their annual report, public limited companies would be required to state the number of employees who are registered as disabled.

No. However, schedule 7 to the Companies Act 1985 requires companies employing more than an average of 250 people in each week of the financial year to include in the directors' report a statement describing the policy they have applied during the financial year for the employment, training, career development and promotion of disabled persons.