Question follow-through · 87058
Department for Business and Trade: Disability
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, how many staff in his Department are recorded as having a (a) mental health condition and (b) physical disability by grade.
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- Answering body
- Department for Business and Trade
- Tabled
- 31 Oct 2025
- Target answer date
- 4 Nov 2025
- Answer
- 10 Nov 2025 · 10 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
31 Oct 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, how many staff in his Department are recorded as having a (a) mental health condition and (b) physical disability by grade.
4 Nov 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
10 Nov 2025
Answer published
Information on the number of people declaring a disability in department for Business and Trade (DBT) are published annually as part of Civil Service Statistics 2025, an accredited official statistics publication. The latest published data is accurate as ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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