HC Deb 11 July 1984 vol 63 c561W
Mr. Nicholas Winterton

asked the Secretary of State for the Environment how many of the employees of his Department are registered as disabled.

Mr. Patrick Jenkin

Currently the Department employs 457 registered disabled people. 298 are non-industrial staff and the other 159 are industrial.

Mr. Nicholas Winterton

asked 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 Jenkin

The 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.