Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what information his Department holds on the number of economically active individuals there were (a) in total and (b) with self-reported sight problems in England in 2022-23.

The information requested can be found in the table below.

Labour market status by main or secondary long-term health condition,

16 to 64, England, 2022/23

Source: Annual Population Survey (APS) – unpublished

Notes:

Numbers are rounded to the nearest 100.

• Numbers are central estimates and subject to sampling variation. The precision of these estimates will be limited by sample size.
• Annual Population Survey data has not been reweighted to incorporate the latest estimates of the size and composition of the UK population.
• Figures for ‘Difficulty in seeing’ are unpublished but are a variation of those contained within: The employment of disabled people 2023 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)