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	date	23/02/2023
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Department for Education: Disability
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps they have taken in their Department to operate the Disability Confident employer scheme for those seeking a lateral transfer; and how many and what proportion of candidates who declared themselves as having a disability and who applied under that scheme where (a) interviewed and (b) laterally transferred in (i) 2021 and (ii) 2022.
	tabling member constituency	Glasgow South West
	tabling member printed	Chris Stephens
	uin	151315
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/03/2023 answer text <p>The Department is a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) leader, achieved through participating in a range of actions to support staff who have disabilities. This includes programmes to help support career progression, such as ‘Beyond Boundaries’, a cross-Government development programme ‘Power of Choice’, an internal development programme, and actions specific to recruitment, such as guidance to ensure the language in job adverts avoids creating extra barriers and automatic interviews for those who reach the minimum pass mark at sift.</p><p>Data on the number of internal candidates who have declared a disability and progressed in a recruitment round is below.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>2021</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2022</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Number of internal applicants who applied under DCS on lateral transfer and who were invited to interview</p></td><td><p>41 (44%)</p></td><td><p>66 (51%)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Number of internal applicants who applied under DCS on lateral transfer and who were successful</p></td><td><p>12 (30%)</p></td><td><p>22 (33%)</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 03/03/2023 14:11:30 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
	tabling member	4463 label Biography information for Chris Stephens

1588186

	registered interest
	date	22/02/2023
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Department for Education: Disability
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps they have taken to operate a disability confident scheme for those seeking promotion in their Department; and how many and what proportion of those candidates who declared themselves as having a disability and who applied under the scheme were (a) interviewed and (b) promoted in (i) 2021 and (ii) 2022.
	tabling member constituency	Glasgow South West
	tabling member printed	Chris Stephens
	uin	150527
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/03/2023 answer text <p>The Department is a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) leader, achieved through investment in a range of actions to support staff who have disabilities.</p><p>This includes programmes to help support career progression (including ‘Beyond Boundaries’, a cross-government development programme and ‘Power of Choice’, an internal development programme) and actions specific to recruitment, (such as guidance to ensure the language in job adverts avoids creating extra barriers and automatic interviews for those who reach the minimum pass mark at sift).</p><p>Data on the number of internal candidates who have applied under the scheme and progressed in a recruitment is below.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>2021</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2022</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Number of internal applicants who applied under DCS</strong></p></td><td><p>414</p></td><td><p>702</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Number of internal applicants who applied under DCS and on promotion who were invited to interview</strong></p></td><td><p>162 (39%)</p></td><td><p>199 (28%)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Number of internal applicants who applied under DCS and on promotion who were promoted</strong></p></td><td><p>64 (15%)</p></td><td><p>68 (10%)</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 02/03/2023 16:45:11 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
	tabling member	4463 label Biography information for Chris Stephens