§ Ms. WalleyTo ask the Secretary of State for Employment if he will reconsider his decision to allow non-disabled staff to he employed on a casual basis in the Remploy workshop in Stoke-on-Trent in jobs which were primarily intended for people with severe disabilities.
Mr. JacksonRemploy continues to fulfil its statutory duty to provide productive work in sheltered conditions for people with severe disabilities. In order to help fulfil this statutory duty and to provide real jobs Remploy operates as a commercial company. As a result Remploy also employs non-disabled staff where it considers this necessary. I understand that in order to meet short-term demands in work recently being undertaken by its Stoke-on-Trent factory, the company decided to take on both disabled and non-disabled people to fill some temporary vacancies.