Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many staff in his Department are recorded as having a (a) mental health condition and (b) physical disability, broken down by grade.
In the Ministry of Justice (including its executive agencies: HMCTS, CICA, LAA, OPG, and HMPPS), along with the wider Civil Service, information about a disability or long-term condition, including mental health conditions, is completed by staff on a voluntary basis, on HR systems. Data on mental health conditions is only available as a subset of those who have voluntarily indicated they considered themselves to have disability or long-term condition. As there is no single category for physical disability, we have provided data on all those who have indicated a disability or long-term condition.
The data provided covers the Ministry of Justice, including its executive agencies: MoJ HQ, HMCTS, CICA, LAA, OPG, and HMPPS.
The table below shows data for the number of staff in post in the department who have self-reported a disability or long-term condition, broken down by grade, as of 31 March 2025.
Grade | Number of self-reported disabled staff |
SCS | 39 |
G6 | 132 |
G7 | 389 |
SEO | 1,023 |
HEO | 1,231 |
EO | 1,626 |
AO | 3,798 |
AA | 1,088 |
Unknown | 4,780 |
Total | 14,106 |
The total will not exactly match that used in Civil Service Statistics as we have used a different methodology applicable to internal data in order to answer this question.
The table below shows data for the number of staff in post in the department who have self-reported the HR data management systems category mental health conditions, broken down by grade, as of 31 March 2025.
Grade | Number of self-reported disabled staff with mental health conditions |
SCS | Less than 10 |
G6 | 12 |
G7 | 39 |
SEO | 111 |
HEO | 151 |
EO | 171 |
AO | 427 |
AA | 118 |
Unknown | 658 |
Total | 1,691 |
*Data includes those who have selected a single category mental health conditions. We do not capture those who may have multiple conditions or include information provided as free text.