Department Staff

Danny Alexander
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs how many and what percentage of staff employed in his Department were registered disabled in each year since 2001.

Barry Gardiner
Data on the disabled status of DEFRA employee, for the years requested, are available on the civil service website. The latest available data are as at April 2005 and these, together with previous years’ data, can be found at the following website addresses:

http://www.civilservice.gov.uk/management/statistics/publications/xls/report_2005/table_p.xls

for data as at April 2005,

http://www.civilservice.gov.uk/management/statistics/publications/xls/disability_apr04_4nov04.xls

for data as at April 2004, and

http://www.civilservice.gov.uk/management/statistics/archive/index.asp

for previous reporting periods.

Declaration of a disability is voluntary.