§ Mr. GoodmanTo ask the Secretary of State for International Development what progress has been made in meeting targets for the proportion of people with disabilities in senior posts in his Department. [146006]
§ Hilary BennStatistical information about senior civil servants with disabilities is available on the Civil Service Statistics website at: http://www.civil-service.gov.uk/ statistics/documents/pdf/disability-oct03.pdf
As there are less than five members of the senior civil service in my department with a disability, the actual number is not published in order to protect the privacy of the individual in line with exemption 12 of the Code of Practice on Access to Government Information.
DFID's target for the proportion of people with disabilities in senior posts is 3.3 per cent.