Departmental Disabled Staff

Mr. Harper
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government 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.

Barbara Follett
The information is as follows:

(a) The number and the average salaries of the disabled and non-disabled staff employed by the Department for Communities and Local Government who have made their disability status known, is shown in the following table:

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|                      |Average salaries (£)|Staff number|
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|Disabled—Full-time    |35,411              |90          |
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|Disabled—Part-time    |41,023              |5.7         |
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|Non-disabled—Full-time|40,722              |1,296       |
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|Non-disabled—Part-time|40,569              |133.4       |
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(b) Information on the average salaries of disabled and non-disabled staff in the Department's agencies is not held centrally.