Based on management information, within the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills 7.8 per cent. of staff have declared a disability, 79.9 per cent. have declared that they do not have a disability and the remaining 12.4 per cent. of staff have chosen not to respond to the questionnaire. 0.8 per cent. of staff have declared themselves disabled and are working part time.
The following tables show the average salaries of both part-time and full-time by their pay band and disability status.
Grades Percentage of FT disabled staff Average salary (£) Percentage of FT non disabled staff Average salary (£) Percentage of FT non declared staff Average salary (£) AA—AO 14.8 20,627 80.1 20,874 5.1 19,411 EO—HEO 8.6 28,326 74.8 28,876 16.6 27,208 SEO—G6 6.2 48,341 82.6 47,991 11.1 49,067 SCS 4.5 81.994 84.6 83,574 10.9 95.056 All FT staff 7.8 36.289 79.4 41,396 12.7 39.856
Grades Percentage of PT disabled staff Average salary1 (£) Percentage of PT non disabled staff Average Salary1 (£) Percentage of PT non declared staff Average salary1(£) AA—AO 5.6 20,263 88.9 19,056 5.6 19,411 EO—HEO 8.5 27,016 80.8 27,116 10.8 27.208 SEO—G6 6.2 42.362 83.1 50,500 10.7 49,067 SCS 10.3 70.871 86.2 79,992 3.4 95,056 All PT staff 7.2 37,020 83.4 40,600 9.5 39,856 1 The large differences between the average salaries of part time staff is due to the very small numbers of both those who have declared a disability and those who have not responded to the questionnaire which make up only 0.8 per cent. and 1 per cent. respectively of the Department’s work force.
I have approached the chief executives of the Insolvency Service, Companies House, the Intellectual Property Office and the National Measurement Office they will respond to the Hon. Member directly.
Letter from Gareth Jones:
I am replying on behalf of Companies House to your Parliamentary Question tabled 10 February 2010, UIN 317906 to the Minister of State for Business, Innovation and Skills.
The proportion of Companies House staff known to be disabled is 3.1% and the median salary for both non-disabled and disabled staff is £18,320. This salary figure applies to both full-time and part-time staff. These figures are taken from the Annual Civil Service Employment Survey, published by the Office for National Statistics.
Letter from Peter Mason, dated 19 February 2010:
I am responding in respect of the National Measurement Office to your Parliamentary Question, tabled on 10 February 2010, to the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills asking for details of disabled staff employed by the Department and its agencies.
Information provided by the National Measurement Office (then known as the National Weights and Measures Laboratory) is included in the Annual Civil Service Employment Survey (ACSES) statistics published by the Office for National Statistics on 20 January 2010:
http://www.statistics.gov.uk/pdfdir/cs0110.pdf
Statistics in that Survey are based on self declaration of staff who wish to be considered disabled. In practice, no employee of the NMO has currently made such a declaration. Because the statistics depend on self declaration, no account is taken of members of staff who have medical conditions which have led them to make applications for reasonable adjustments under our equal opportunities or health & safety policies, but have not made such declarations.
Letter from John Alty, dated 16 February 2010:
I am responding in respect of the Intellectual Property Office to your Parliamentary Question tabled 10 February 2010, to the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills.
The IPO employs 905 staff of which 20 (2.2%) have declared a disability. Of this 20, 17 are full-time and 3 part-time.
Average salary costs are shown below:
(A) Full-time disabled: £28,266.10
(B) Full-time non-disabled: £30,808.36
(C) Part-time disabled: £17,955.07
(D) Part-time non-disabled: £26,337.83
Letter from Stephen Speed, dated 26 February 2010:
The Minister of State, Department of Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) has asked me to reply to your question regarding 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.
There is a total of 2685 employees as at 1st February 2010. 357 (13.3%) of these are disabled. There is also a number of employees whose disability status is not known (163).
The table below gives average salary details1.
1 Employees whose disability status is not known have not been included in any of the average salary data.
Disabled Non-disabled Full-time (a) 25,606.80 (b) 26,206.76 Part-time (c) 23,438.52 (d) 24,901.01