HC Deb 14 February 1989 vol 147 c148W
38. Mr. Ashley

To ask the Secretary of State for Employment what discussions he has had regarding the level of disabled unemployment recorded in the Office of Population Censuses and Surveys survey.

Mr. Lee

The recently published information in the report by the Office of Population Censuses and Surveys, on the financial circumstances of disabled adults living in private households does not provide sufficiently precise information about the unemployment of economically active people who have handicaps which are relevant to employment. My Department has recently commissioned a survey to provide such information. I expect the results to be available in the second half of this year.

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