§ Mr. Wigleyasked the Secretary of State for Employment if he will publish a table showing for each region of England, and for Wales and Scotland, the number of registered disabled persons of working age, the number of disablement resettlement officers and the ratio 489W of cases per officer, for the latest point at which information is available.
§ Mr. Jim Lester[pursuant to his reply, 23 May 1980, c. 433]: I am informed by the Manpower Services Commission that the number of registered disabled people of working age by regions at 21 April 1980 is as shown in the following table A. The information as at 31 March
TABLE A Department of Employment Region Number of registered disabled people ENGLAND: South West … … … … … … … … … 36,150 Yorkshire and Humberside … … … … … … … 46,551 NorthWest … … … … … … … … … 70,194 North … … … … … … … … … … 32,137 South East … … … … … … … … … 118,981 East Anglia … … … … … … … … … 13,484 West Midlands … … … … … … … … … 48,336 East Midlands … … … … … … … … … 31,135 WALES … … … … … … … … … … 29,828 SCOTLAND … … … … … … … … … 43,792 TOTAL … … … … … … … … 470,588
TABLE B Employment Service Division Area Number of disabled people seeking employment Disablement resettlement officers in post* Ratio of cases per disablement resettlement officer (a) Registered (b) Unregistered ENGLAND: North East … … 4,132 6,032 34 299 East Pennine … … 5,785 9,827 57 274 East Midlands … … 3,688 4,701 32 262 North West … … 2,749 1,840 23 200 Manchester … … 4,348 3,935 35 237 Merseyside … … 4,690 2,646 26 293 Western … … … 1,777 2,699 18 249 West Midlands … … 6,024 9,253 47 325 London North West … 1,277 3,310 19 241 London North East … 2,351 3,188 19 292 London South … … 2,143 4,165 25 252 South East … 2,686 3,642 23 275 Southern … … 2,749 3,064 21 277 Eastern … … … 3,848 3,895 31 250 South West … … 3,054 3,653 22 305 WALES … … … … 3,584 5,067 38 228 SCOTLAND … … … 5,530 8,115 68 201 *The figures shown include the number of blind persons resettlement officers.