HC Deb 27 July 1981 vol 9 c311W
Mr. John Grant

asked the Secretary of State for Employment if he will estimate the number of people on the disabled persons' register who have died or retired in each of the last five years; and what is his estimate of the unemployment rate among registered disabled people taking as a basis the number of registered disabled people still in the work force.

Mr. Peter Morrison

There is no reliable source of information about the retirement or death of disabled people whose names were in the disabled persons register at the time of the annual count in April. However, taking the latest figure for the register as a whole, the percentage represented by unemployed registered disabled people on 11 June 1981 was 15.8.