§ Tim Loughton:To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many senior civil servants in his Department are disabled, expressed (a) in actual terms and (b) as a percentage of WTE staff. [143065]
§ Ms Rosie Winterton:All staff are asked to volunteer information in our equal opportunities monitoring but they are under no compulsion to reply. Of those that have made a declaration in returned Equal Opportunities monitoring forms there are seven disabled staff in the senior civil service in the Department of Health—excluding its agencies and arms length bodies. This represents 2.33 per cent. of whole-time equivalent staff which currently stands at 300.5.