Mr. Jim Callaghanasked the Secretary of State for Employment whether there has been any improvement in the current year in the number of employers who employ their quota of disabled persons in the North-West area and the United Kingdom as a whole.
§ Mr. Peter MorrisonThe necessary information from the annual inquiry by the Manpower Services Commission into the quota positions of employers will not be available until later this summer.
§ Mr. Carter-Jonesasked the Secretary of State for Employment if, in view of anxieties regarding the future provision of employment for disabled people he is satisfied that a two-year period will be adequate for the new committees for employment of disabled people to be tried out adequately and if he will make a settlement.
§ Mr. Peter Morrison[pursuant to his reply, 3 June 1981; c. 327]: The Manpower Services Commission's current intention is to consider the future of the committees for employment of disabled people at the end of 1982. The Government have approved this arrangement.
The commission's district manpower committees, which cover the same areas as committees for the employment of disabled people are due for reconstitution at that time, and the commission believes it is appropriate to look at the future of the two sets of committees together.