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1005697

	registered interest
	date	12/11/2018
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Government Departments: Disability
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what recent assessment he has made of the level of compliance of Departments with their duty under the Equality Act 2010 to provide accessible documents for disabled people.
	tabling member constituency	Battersea
	tabling member printed	Marsha De Cordova
	uin	190516
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/12/2018 answer text <p>Monitoring of compliance with the Equality Act 2010 is a matter for individual departments.</p><p> </p><p>The Office for Disability Issues (ODI) is working with external stakeholders to review and bring up to date guidance on accessible communications. The guidance will cover language, communications channels and accessible formats for publications, meetings and consultations. The guidance is aimed at supporting government communicators to help all parts of government improve their communications with disabled people. This updated guidance will be available by Spring 2019.</p><p> </p><p>The Government Digital Service (GDS) helps departments to ensure their online content and services are accessible. GDS sets standards, provides assurance around these (through spend control and service assessment processes), publishes guidance on how to meet the standard (e.g. service manual), develops tools to do this well and quickly (e.g. Government as a Platform components, toolkits and patterns), and supports the departments in using them, collating and curating lessons learned.</p><p> </p><p>New Regulations will enhance this activity through the introduction of a central monitoring system and increased guidance and support for public sector bodies. Cabinet Office introduced The Public Sector Bodies (Websites and Mobile Applications) (No. 2) Accessibility Regulations 2018. These regulations build on existing equalities legislation by making it easier for users to report issues about the accessibility of public sector websites, backed up by proportionate monitoring and enforcement. GDS supports departmental compliance with the regulations and produces guidance and training, including on how to make documents accessible.</p><p> </p><p>Within the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP), the Minister for Disabled People also convenes a cross sector group on accessible communications.</p> answering member constituency Hertsmere answering member printed Oliver Dowden question first answered 18/12/2018 16:13:36 answering member 4441 label Biography information for Oliver Dowden
	tabling member	4676 label Biography information for Marsha De Cordova

1148166

	registered interest
	date	03/10/2019
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Government Departments: Disability
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, what estimate he has made of the number of disabled people in each Government Department that left work as a result of a (a) disability and (b) long-term health condition in (i) 2016, (ii) 2017 and (iii) 2018.
	tabling member constituency	West Lancashire
	tabling member printed	Rosie Cooper
	uin	294117
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/10/2019 answer text <p>Information on the number of people in each government department who left work as a result of a disability or a long-term health condition is not held centrally by Cabinet Office.</p><p>The Civil Service is committed to becoming the UK’s most inclusive employer by 2020; which means attracting and retaining the best talent from all diverse backgrounds, including those with a disability.</p><p>To achieve this, Sir Philip Rutnam, CS Disability Champion, has set out a clear vision for a disability confident and disability inclusive Civil Service; with a specific priority to develop and retain disabled talent. These include; ensuring our disabled staff have access to effective and timely workplace adjustments and access to mainstream talent development programmes and positive action schemes to enable disabled staff to thrive and realise their full potential. <a href="https://civilservice.blog.gov.uk/2016/03/22/my-priorities-as-civil-service-disability-champion/" target="_blank">https://civilservice.blog.gov.uk/2016/03/22/my-priorities-as-civil-service-disability-champion/</a></p><p>The Civil Service publishes annual statistics on the number of disabled employees. These show that the proportion of civil servants who are declared disabled has increased every year since 2010, from 7.6% in 2010 to 11.7% in 2019.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire answering member printed Simon Hart question first answered 08/10/2019 14:57:38 answering member 3944 label Biography information for Simon Hart
	tabling member	1538 label Biography information for Rosie Cooper

1382469

	registered interest
	date	25/11/2021
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Government Departments: Disability
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many disabled people are employed by each department.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Garden of Frognal
	uin	HL4424
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/12/2021 answer text <p>Information on the number of disabled staff by department can be found in Table 38 of the Civil Service Statistics, the latest version of which was published 28 July 2021 and is available in the Government efficiency, transparency and accountability collection on <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/civil-service-statistics-2021" target="_blank">GOV.UK</a>. The latest figures show that 13.6% of Civil Servants declare themselves as having a disability.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord True question first answered 01/12/2021 16:24:44 answering member 4200 label Biography information for Lord True
	tabling member	3842 label Biography information for Baroness Garden of Frognal