Departmental Staff (Disabled Persons)

HC Deb 24 February 1983 vol 37 cc493-4W

Mr. Kilroy-Silk

asked the Prime Minister why so few Government Departments are employing the 3 per cent. quota of physically disabled persons.

£000s (to nearest £100,000)
	1978–79	1979–80	1980–81	1981–82	*1982–83
Agricultural Research Council	26,300	29,500	37,500	42,100	43,600
Medical Research Council	47,100	57,300	72,800	101,800	107,500

The Prime Minister

All employers have difficulty in achieving the quota figure; if all registered disabled people had been employed at 1 June 1980, the average level of compliance by relevant employers would have been about 1.9 per cent. All Government departments are aware of their obligations to ensure that opportunities to employ disabled people are not overlooked.