§ Mr. Nicholas Wintertonasked the Secretary of State for the Environment how many of the employees of his Department are registered as disabled.
§ Mr. Patrick JenkinCurrently the Department employs 457 registered disabled people. 298 are non-industrial staff and the other 159 are industrial.
§ Mr. Nicholas Wintertonasked the Secretary of State for the Environment how many new staff have been employed by his Department in each of the last five years for which figures are available.
§ Mr. Patrick JenkinThe figures are as follows:
Year Number 1979 3,825 1980 2,428 1981 704 1982 1,387 1983 1,668 1984 (to 30 June) 944 During this period the total number of staff employed by the Department — adjusted for machinery of government transfers—fell from 50,258 to 33,836, a reduction of nearly one third.