To ask the Secretary of State for Health what proportion of people employed by (a) his Department and (b) its agencies are disabled. (153598)

The latest available data as at 30 September 2006 are published in Civil Service Statistics 2006 at Table P and can be accessed at:

www.statistics.gov.uk/StatBase/Product.asp?vlnk=2899&Pos=&ColRank=l&Rank=422

www.statistics.gov.uk/downloads/theme_labour/2006CivilServiceStatistics.pdf

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