Disability Unit: Staff

(asked on 27th February 2023) - View Source

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many people have been employed in the Disability Unit in each year since its creation.


Answered by
Jeremy Quin Portrait
Jeremy Quin
This question was answered on 7th March 2023

The Disability Unit was established in November 2019, when a Machinery of Government Change transferred officials from the former Office for Disability Issues (ODI) to the Cabinet Office from the Department for Work and Pensions to form the Disability Unit.

31/01/2020*

31/12/2020

31/12/2021

31/12/2022

Total

16

18

28

25

*Data was not held on our systems in December 2019

Of those that declared their disability status:

31/01/2020

31/12/2020

31/12/2021

31/12/2022

Percentage yes

50%

38%

44%

50%

Percentages exclude those who did not declare their disability status or who declared that they would prefer not to say.

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