§ Mrs. BrookeTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what proportion of university students were registered disabled for courses commencing in(a) autumn 2000, (b) autumn 2001 and (c) autumn 2002. [117381]
§ Alan JohnsonThe available information is only collected for UK domiciled students and is based on the student's own assessment of whether he or she has a disability and so does not necessarily indicate that the student is registered disabled.
The data for the last three available years are given in the table. Data for the academic year 2002/03 will be available from December 2003.
726Wedition, based on April 2001 data, was published in June 2002. The next edition, based on April 2002 data, is due to be published at the end of July 2003.
Staffing costs for my Department for the years in question were as follows.
£million 1997/98 100.43 1998/99 107.98 1999/00 116.81 2000/01 133.95 2001/02 124.12 The figures exclude the staffing costs of Departmental staff employed in and paid by Government Offices, which are not held centrally.
Cabinet Office publishes information on non-departmental public bodies (NDPBs) in its annual publication Public Bodies. The information includes details of the number of staff employed by each NDPB at 31 March each year. Public Bodies 2002 was published in January 2003. Copies of Public Bodies published each year since 1997 are available in the Libraries of both Houses.
Staffing costs of NDPBs for which my Department is responsible are listed in the following table:
UK domiciled higher education students recorded as having a disability, from 1999/2000 to 2001/02 Academic year 1999/2000 2000/01 2001/02 Numbers1 With a disability 73,168 79,583 89,291 Without a disability 1,431,303 1,510,667 1,575,847 Unknown 100,050 53,615 34,747 Total known 1,504,471 1,590,250 1,665,138 Percentages With a disability 5 5 5 Without a disability 95 95 95 Total known 100 100 100 1 Includes postgraduates and undergraduates Source:
Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA)