Disability Symbol

Mr. Barnes
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment if she will list for her Department and each of the agencies for which she is responsible if it uses the Employment Service's positive disabled people symbol for (a) external recruitment and (b) internal recruitment and promotion. [11910]

Mr. Robin Squire
The position in the Department and its agencies is as follows:---------------------------
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|DfEE                     |
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|Employment Service       |
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|Teachers' Pensions Agency|
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DfEE plans to introduce the symbol from April 1996. Consideration is being given to how the Teachers' Pensions Agency might be included in arrangements for use of the symbol by DfEE.