§ Mr. McTaggartasked the Secretary of State for Scotland what percentage of firms in (a) Glasgow and (b) Scotland are employing a 3 per cent. quota of registered disabled persons.
§ Mr. Alexander Fletcher[pursuant to his reply, 28 April 1983, c. 375]: Information is available from an annual survey last conducted in May 1982. Of those firms subject to disabled persons quota legislation in Glasgow 136W city at that date 26 per cent. were employing 3 per cent. or more registered disabled people. The comparable figure for Scotland was 28 per cent. These figures do not include branches of multiples whose head offices are located outwith Glasgow or Scotland.
§ Mr. McTaggartasked the Secretary of State for Scotland how the rate of unemployment among disabled people in Scotland compares with the overall rate of unemployment in Scotland.
§ Mr. Alexander Fletcher[pursuant to his reply, 28 April 1983, c. 374–75]: On 10 March there were 341,500 unemployment benefit claimants—the new basis of the unemployment count—in Scotland, with an unemployment rate of 15.7 per cent. It is not possible to identify separately registered disabled people from the new count of persons claiming unemployment benefit. However, 6,402 registered disabled people were registered for employment at the jobcentres in Scotland on 10 March 1983. With the introduction of voluntary arrangements in October 1982, registration for employment is no longer a condition of receipt of benefits, and this figure does not necessarily reflect the total number of registered disabled people unemployed. It is not possible to calculate an unemployment percentage rate amongst registered disabled people.
§ Mr. McTaggartasked the Secretary of State for Scotland how many registered disabled there were in (a) Glasgow and (b) Scotland in the latest available date; and of these, how many were also registered unemployed.
§ Mr. Alexander Fletcher[pursuant to his reply, 28 April 1983, c. 374]: The number of persons registered as disabled is counted in April of each year, but the figures for 1983 are not yet available. At April 1982 the numbers of registered disabled persons in the Glasgow travel-to-work area and Scotland were 9,017 and 40,729 respectively. The numbers of registered disabled persons also registered as unemployed at that date in the Glasgow travel-to-work area and Scotland were 1,374 and 6,517 respectively.
Notes:
1. Since registration as a disabled person is voluntary, the figures quoted above do not necessarily reflect the total numbers of persons with some disability in the labour market.2. The Glasgow travel-to-work area comprises the employment office areas in Glasgow city together with Barrhead, Clydebank, Cumbemauld, East Kilbride, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch employment office areas.