Departments: Disabled

Mr. Harper
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what proportion of people employed by (a) her Department and (b) its agencies are disabled.

Mr. Iain Wright
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=l&Rank=422

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

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