Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of her Department's staff have declared that they have a disability.

As at 31 December 2020, 92 per cent of 85,041 department colleagues had declared their disability status on our central systems. Of these, 13,894 colleagues had declared themselves to have a disability or long term health condition. This represents 18 per cent of all colleagues who have updated their records to show their disability status.