HC Deb 15 July 1992 vol 211 c719W
Mrs. Roche

To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, pursuant to his answer to the hon. and learned Member for Leicester, West (Mr. Janner) on 1 July,Official Report, column 627, (a) how many of his Department's employees and (b) what proportion of his Department's employees were registered disabled in 1989 and 1990.

Mr. Lang

[holding answer 14 July 1992]: In 1989, 85 registered disabled persons were employed by my Department—1.4 per cent. of the total work force; the corresponding figures for 1990 were 73 and 1.2 per cent. In each of these years my Department employed, in addition, an unrecorded number of disabled persons who had chosen not to register.