PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Performance Appraisal (24 June 2014)

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what proportion of (a) disabled and (b) all other staff employed by his Department received each level of performance rating in their end of year performance assessment for 2013-14.

Asked by:
Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck (Labour)

In DECC the staff declaration rate for disability is:

• 5.7% have declared they have a disability;
• 70.6% have declared they don't have a disability;
• 23.7% have not declared their disability status.

The 2013/14 performance ratings breakdown for these groups is:

	Declared have a disability	Declared don't have a disability	Disability status not declared
1- SCS, Top; AO-G6, Exceptional performance.	12.2%	27.1%	22.5%
2 - SCS, Achieving; AO-G6, Effective performance.	70.7%	67.5%	70.7%
3 – SCS, Low; AO-G6, Need for improvement/ developing	17.1%	5.5%	6.8%

Answered by:
Lord Barker of Battle (Conservative)
30 June 2014