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Ministry of Justice: Disability

Asked by Neil O'BrienConservativeMinistry of JusticeTabled Answered 5 November 2025UIN 85880

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many staff in his Department are recorded as having a (a) mental health condition and (b) physical disability, broken down by grade.

Answered by Jake Richards

In the Ministry of Justice (including its executive agencies: HMCTS, CICA, LAA, OPG, and HMPPS), along with the wider Civil Service, information about a disability or long-term condition, including mental health conditions, is completed by staff on a voluntary basis, on HR systems. Data on mental health conditions is only available as a subset of those who have voluntarily indicated they considered themselves to have disability or long-term condition. As there is no single category for physical disability, we have provided data on all those who have indicated a disability or long-term condition.

The data provided covers the Ministry of Justice, including its executive agencies: MoJ HQ, HMCTS, CICA, LAA, OPG, and HMPPS.

The table below shows data for the number of staff in post in the department who have self-reported a disability or long-term condition, broken down by grade, as of 31 March 2025.

Grade

Number of self-reported disabled staff

SCS

39

G6

132

G7

389

SEO

1,023

HEO

1,231

EO

1,626

AO

3,798

AA

1,088

Unknown

4,780

Total

14,106

The total will not exactly match that used in Civil Service Statistics as we have used a different methodology applicable to internal data in order to answer this question.

The table below shows data for the number of staff in post in the department who have self-reported the HR data management systems category mental health conditions, broken down by grade, as of 31 March 2025.

Grade

Number of self-reported disabled staff with mental health conditions

SCS

Less than 10

G6

12

G7

39

SEO

111

HEO

151

EO

171

AO

427

AA

118

Unknown

658

Total

1,691

*Data includes those who have selected a single category mental health conditions. We do not capture those who may have multiple conditions or include information provided as free text.

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