§ Mr. BerryTo ask the Secretary of State for Employment what is his estimate of the unemployment rate of disabled people.
§ Miss Widdecombe[holding answer 28 April 1994]: The labour force survey asks people of working age if they currently have a health problem or disability which limits the kind of paid work they can do. Estimates based on answers to this question will include people with short-term health problems and disabilities as well as those registered as disabled.
The latest LFS estimates for summer 1993 show that, in Great Britain, the International Labour Organisation unemployment rate for such people was 22 per cent.