PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Employment: Visual Impairment (17 April 2024)

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.

Asked by:
Karin Smyth (Labour)

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

Labour market status	Total	Difficulty in seeing
Total	35,038,400	487,200
Economically active	27,551,700	238,800

Source: Annual Population Survey (APS) – unpublished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• Figures for ‘Difficulty in seeing’ are unpublished but are a variation of those contained within: The employment of disabled people 2023 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

Answered by:
Mims Davies (Conservative)
22 April 2024