HC Deb 08 May 2002 vol 385 cc173-4W
Brian Cotter

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what adjustments have been made to her Department's premises following the introduction of the Disability Discrimination Act 1995; and what the cost of these adjustments was as a proportion of her Department's budget. [53027]

Mr. Ivan Lewis

[holding answer 29 April 2002]: Separate records are not kept on specific changes or costs of modifications to the Department's premises to meet the requirements of the Disability Discrimination Act 1995. Expenditure on statutory and beneficial "reasonable adjustments" is subsumed within on-going works programmes covering a wide range of building maintenance and improvement projects.