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Departmental Staff

Volume 455: debated on Thursday 11 January 2007

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many and what percentage of staff employed in his Department were registered disabled in each year since 2001. (104476)

Please find the requested information in the following table:

The information is representative of the disabled status as declared by individual members of staff. Not all staff who are registered disabled declare themselves as such for departmental records, and the true figure may be higher than the figures shown.

Until 2005 the proportion of disabled staff is shown as a proportion of all staff. The numbers of staff in 2006 are however, based on the proportion of all staff who have declared their disability status1.

The Department for Work and Pensions was created in July 2001, and figures prior to 2002 were unobtainable.

Staff

Disabled staff

Percentage of disabled staff

2006

119,764

6,422

5.4

2005

128,534

6,703

5.2

2004

137,772

7,066

5.1

2003

138,774

6,999

5.0

2002

133,451

7,273

5.4

1 The change was made in response to new guidance from the Cabinet Office requiring us to only include staff who have made a declaration about their disability status. The figures from 2006 onwards will therefore exclude all staff who have chosen not to declare whether they are disabled.