To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many and what percentage of staff employed in his Department were registered disabled in each year since 2001. (104471)

Data for the years requested are available on the civil service website. The latest available data are as at April 2005 and these, together with previous years' data, can be found at the following website addresses:

http://www.civilservice.gov.uk/management/statistics/publications/xls/report_2005/table_p.xls for data as at April 2005,

http://www.civilservice.gov.uk/management/statistics/publications/xls/disability_apr04_4nov04.xls for data as at April 2004, and

http://www.civilservice.gov.uk/management/statistics/archive/index.asp for previous reporting periods.

Declaration of a disability is voluntary.