Employment: Disability
(asked on 19th December 2024) - View Source
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask His Majesty's Government how many disabled people were employed by small, medium, or large businesses in the financial years (1) 2021–22, (2) 2022–23, and (3) 2023–24.
The department publishes a range of statistics from the Annual Population Survey (APS) on the employment of disabled people. This includes the number of disabled people who were employed by workplace size. Workplace size refers to the total number of employees at the respondent’s workplace, not just the section/department or the whole organization. The APS does not collect information on the size of the whole organization, therefore only analysis on workplace size can be provided. A full time-series from 2013/14 can be found in the employment of disabled people 2024 supplementary table EMP006.
Number of disabled people in employment by workplace size, aged 16 to 64, UK
Workplace size | 2021/22 | 2022/23 | 2023/24 |
Small (less than 50 employees) | 1,919,144 | 2,036,454 | 2,080,529 |
Medium (between 50 and 250 employees) | 909,827 | 917,802 | 970,471 |
Large (more than 250 employees) | 1,117,175 | 1,168,427 | 1,332,062 |
Don't know but between 50 and 500 employees | 190,401 | 204,425 | 199,334 |
Source: The employment of disabled people 2024: Table EMP006