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	date	01/02/2022
	answering body	Northern Ireland Office
	answering dept id	21
	answering dept short name	Northern Ireland
	answering dept sort name	Northern Ireland
	hansard heading	Northern Ireland Office: Disability
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, with reference to Part One of the National Disability Strategy, published July 2021, what recent steps his Department has taken to (a) encourage and support workplace disability networks, (b) achieve and maintain the highest level of Disability Confident accreditation, (c) ensure responsive and timely support to meet workplace adjustment needs and (d) develop and embed flexible working.
	tabling member constituency	Lewisham, Deptford
	tabling member printed	Vicky Foxcroft
	uin	115970
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/02/2022 answer text <p>The Northern Ireland Office (NIO) has the following arrangements in place:</p><p>a) The NIO does not have its own disability networks, but works with the Ministry of Justice to ensure our staff have access to the MOJ’s well established networks;</p><p>b) We are in receipt of the Disability Confident leader status following our submission to be accredited in 2018;</p><p>c) Requests for reasonable adjustments are implemented wherever possible, reasonable and practicable. The NIO also supports Workplace Adjustment Passports;</p><p>d) All staff have a right to submit a request for flexible working regardless of their length of service, and this is offered to all new starters. Where possible, the requests are accommodated, such as through providing term-time working, compressed hours, or 9-day fortnights.</p> answering member constituency Bournemouth West answering member printed Conor Burns question first answered 09/02/2022 11:01:48 answering member 3922 label Biography information for Sir Conor Burns
	tabling member	4491 label Biography information for Vicky Foxcroft

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	registered interest
	date	30/03/2023
	answering body	Northern Ireland Office
	answering dept id	21
	answering dept short name	Northern Ireland
	answering dept sort name	Northern Ireland
	hansard heading	Northern Ireland Office: Disability
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what proportion of their Department's employees are recorded as having a disability.
	tabling member constituency	Lewisham, Deptford
	tabling member printed	Vicky Foxcroft
	uin	177872
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/04/2023 answer text <p>As of January 2023, of the 74.2% of staff working in the Northern Ireland Office (NIO) who have completed their disability declaration information, 9.2% shared they had a disability. 4.9% of those who have declared their information have reported they ‘prefer not to say’. This data is completed anonymously by employees via our online HR system (SOP).</p><p> </p><p>The Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy 2022 maintains our focus on mainstreaming the delivery of inclusion and achieving our key priorities as outlined in the Declaration on Government Reform. We will continue to build a more inclusive Civil Service going further than the current Equality Act provisions by building on and expanding a previous focus on Protected Characteristics to deliver for all of our people. Incorporating a broader definition of diversity (such as socioeconomic, work experience and geographic backgrounds) and embedding activity in our strategic priorities will enable the successful delivery of our corporate objectives. Disability remains a focus of this work and we continue to identify and remove barriers affecting disabled colleagues.</p><p> </p><p>Representation of disabled staff is increasing at all grades, whilst this trend is positive, we remain committed to improving the representation of disabled colleagues across our workforce and in particular at our most senior grades.</p><p> </p><p>All main Government departments have Disability Confident Leader (level 3) status on the Government’s Disability Confident Scheme, the highest level of accreditation. The scheme gives employers the tools to recruit, retain and develop disabled people, and acts as a catalyst for continuous improvement.</p><p> </p><p>The Civil Service Workplace Adjustment Service is well established, offering specialist advice and access to a review route for disabled employees experiencing difficulties in securing the adjustments they need. The service includes a Workplace Adjustment Passport to facilitate the seamless retention of adjustments on a change of line manager, job role or move between business areas or departments.</p><p> </p><p>We will continue to target action where gaps persist.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Wycombe answering member printed Mr Steve Baker question first answered 17/04/2023 13:52:13 answering member 4064 label Biography information for Mr Steve Baker
	tabling member	4491 label Biography information for Vicky Foxcroft