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Departments: Disabled

Volume 463: debated on Wednesday 12 September 2007

To ask the Secretary of State for Wales what proportion of people employed by his Department are disabled. (153601)

The Wales Office has a few staff with disabilities. For reasons of privacy no details are given, in line with Cabinet Office guidance.

The latest available data on the disability status of civil servants in Departments and agencies are as at 30 September 2006 and are published in “Civil Service Statistics 2006” at table P. This document is produced by the Office for National Statistics and can be accessed from the following website addresses.

http://www.statistics.gov.uk/StatBase/Product.asp?vlnk=2899&Pos=&ColRank=1&Rank=422

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

Declaration of a disability is voluntary.