Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Employment – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 8 July 1947.
Mr George Isaacs
, Southwark North
12:00,
8 July 1947
Employers on the whole are carrying out their obligations to employ 3 per cent. of disabled persons. The number of persons registered as disabled who were in employment at 19th May was about 700,000. I know that many of these obtained their employment as a direct result of the statutory provisions, but I have no information as to the precise number.