Disabled People (Employment) (Hansard, 10 July 1981)

§ Mr. Hayhoe

The numbers of registered disabled people employed by Government Departments are collected once a year. The latest available figures show that on 1 June 1980 the following Departments failed to meet the quota requirements:

Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
Cabinet Office
Charity Commission
Civil Service Department (and Parliamentary Counsel and Civil Service College)
Civil Service Pay Research Unit
Crown Estate Office
Crown Office Scotland
Customs and Excise
Defence
Education and Science
Energy
Environment (including PSA and Transport)
Export Credits Guarantee
Fair Trading
Foreign and Commonwealth
Government Actuary's
Health and Social Security
Home Office
Industry and Trade
Information, Central Office of
Inland Revenue
Intervention Board for Agricultural Produce
Land Registry
Law Officers
Lord Advocate's (Scotland)
Lord Chancellor's
National Savings
Northern Ireland Office
Ordnance Survey
Overseas Development
Paymaster General's Office
Population, Censuses and Surveys
Public Prosecutions, Director of
Registers of Scotland
Royal Mint
Royal Scottish Museum
Scottish Courts Administration
Scottish Office
Scottish Prison Service
State Hospital Carstairs
Treasury
Welsh Office

The number of Government Departments achieving the quota target increased from 8 to 11 during the 12 month period to 1 June 1980.

Quota figures are of registered disabled people, but registration is voluntary. Many do not register, and present registered numbers are only sufficient for all employers subject to quota to employ on average some 1.9 per cent. rather than the 3 per cent. quota figure. The number of Government Departments achieving 1.9 per cent. or better is 23 out of 53, and the average for the Civil Service as a whole is 1.7 per cent. This compares favourably with the 1.5 per cent. achieved on average by employers who are legally subject to quota.