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Disabled Departmental Staff

Volume 506: debated on Monday 1 March 2010

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many and what proportion of staff in (a) his Department and (b) the executive agencies for which he is responsible are disabled; and what the average salary in (i) his Department and (ii) the executive agencies is of (A) full-time disabled staff, (B) full-time non-disabled staff, (C) part-time disabled staff and (D) part-time non-disabled staff. (317897)

Table 1 provides information for the Home Office and its agencies on the numbers and proportion of staff who are disabled. Table 2 provides the median average salaries of disabled and non-disabled staff.

The information provided is based on data collated by the Office of National Statistics for 31 March 2009.

Table 1: Headcount and proportion of disabled staff in the Home Office1

Department

Disabled

Disabled employees as percentage of known disability status

Home Office

Home Office (excl. agencies)2

120

4.5

UK Border Agency

1,020

6.0

Criminal Records Bureau

20

3.0

Identity and Passport Service3

1 Numbers are rounded to the nearest 10.

2 Includes Government office for the regions employees.

3 The Identity and Passport Service declarations are extremely low so their data have not been included.

Table 2: Median earnings by disability1,2

Full-time

Part-time

Department

Disabled staff

Non-disabled

Disabled staff

Non-disabled

Home Office

Home Office (excl agencies)

26,750

32,220

18,380

25,360

UK Border Agency

21,840

21,840

20,550

21,320

Criminal Records Bureau

17,420

19,830

1

17,560

Identity and Passport Service3

3

3

3

3

1 Numbers are rounded to the nearest 10, numbers less than five are represented by “1—”.

2 Salaries in this table represent the full-time equivalent salaries of employees rounded to the nearest 10.

3 The Identity and Passport Service declarations are extremely low so their data have not been included.