Departmental Disabled Staff

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change how many and what proportion of staff in his Department are disabled; and what the average salary in his Department 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. (317889)

The Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) was created in October 2008 bringing together staff from Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (BERR) and Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA). The number of employees within DECC and who have declared a disability status was published in the Annual Civil Service Employment Survey (ACSES) by the Office for National Statistics on 20 January 2010.

An extract is shown as follows:

*DECC Civil service employment and disability status*¹
	Number/percentage
Disabled	40
Non-disabled	200
Not declared or non-response	670
Total	910
All employees with known disability status	240
Disabled employees as percentage of known disability status	16.5
¹ Numbers are rounded to the nearest 10.

The median earnings for non-disabled and disabled employees is as follows:

£
	Non-disabled	Disabled
Full-time	37,710	31,900
Part-time	49,570	¹—
¹Data not available as disclosure could identify individuals. Note: Data compiled as at 31 March 2009.

Volume 506: debated on Friday 5 March 2010