How many disabled people currently work at TfL in both full-time and part-time work; How many non-disabled people currently work at TfL in both full-time and part-time work; How many applications did TfL receive in 2017 from disabled people for both full-time and part-time posts? The retention rate of disabled employees at TfL over the past five years compared to non-disabled employees; Any information that TfL holds on its disability employment gap.

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Dear

TfL Ref: FOI-1604-1819

Thank you for your email received by Transport for London (TfL) on 14 September 2018.

Your request has been considered in accordance with the requirements of the Freedom of Information Act and our information access policy.  I can confirm we hold some of the information you require.

TfL support the social model of disability which upholds that it is a disabled person’s environment that limits their ability to complete a task. To support employees who have declared their disability and need an adjustment to their working environment, we have in place a reasonable adjustment process to support them to fulfil their roles, a staff network Group that provide a forum for employees to share ideas and support each other in developing our equality agenda in all areas of employment, and ensure our employees have sufficient disability equality awareness training.

As a Disability Confident employer we actively look to attract and recruit disabled people via our inclusive and accessible recruitment process. We demonstrate this by offering an interview to disabled people who meet the minimum criteria for the role; and by being flexible when assessing people so job applicants with a disability have the best opportunity to demonstrate that they can do the role. We also encourage our suppliers and partner firms to be Disability Confident,  as well as providing a work experience programme for adults with learning disabilities.

Please note in April 2018, we launched the first version of our Diversity and Inclusion Dashboards, providing further data and insight to our senior managers. The dashboards give a much richer and insightful picture of employee outcomes for a number of characteristics covered by the Equality Act.

·         How many disabled people currently work at TfL in both full-time and part-time work;

·         How many non-disabled people currently work at TfL in both full-time and part-time work;

Declaration	Total	% of Employees	% of Yes/No declarations
Declared No disability	13,313	49.4%	95.9%
Declared - Disabled	563	2.1%	4.1%
Declared - Prefer not to say	603	2.2%
Undeclared	12,463	46.3%

*The % of Yes/No declarations is used in TfL for Workforce Representativeness Index scorecard results and on the Diversity & Inclusion Dashboards. Because it was originally benchmarked against the 2011 Census, where non declaration wasn’t an option, this figure reduces the population size to only those who we know have or don’t have a disability. (Figures taken from Period 6 2018, 16^th September 2018).

·         How many applications did TfL receive in 2017 from disabled people for both full-time and part-time posts?

Please see below total applications to TfL (including those who declared a disability) between January 2017 – December 2017. 

	Number of applications	%
Yes	2,968	2.7%
No	99,351	92.3%
N/A	5,211	4.8%
Total	107,530	100.0%

·         The retention rate of disabled employees at TfL over the past five years compared to non-disabled employees;

Please find below the Retention Rate for disabled and non disabled employees since October 2013. Disability is a self declared field therefore we have included those who have not declared or who have declared or they prefer not to say.

The retention rates as at 3 October 2018 are below :

Disabled	Employees Oct 2013	Leavers since Oct 2013	Retention
Yes	638	207	67.55%
No	11,957	3,321	72.23%
Unknown	10,582	2,676	74.71%
Prefer not to Say	540	179	66.85%

·         Any information that TfL holds on its disability employment gap.

The Economically Active London Population who have declared a disability is 11% according to the GLA figures from 2016 (we are now using these as benchmark for the our scorecard).

Disability Employment Gap for all employees              8.9%

Disability Employment Gap Yes/No declared               6.9%

If this is not the information you are looking for, or if you are unable to access it for some reason, please do not hesitate to contact me.

Please see the attached information sheet for details of your right to appeal as well as information on copyright and what to do if you would like to re-use any of the information we have disclosed.

Yours sincerely

Eva Hextall

FOI Case Officer

FOI Case Management Team

General Counsel

Transport for London

·         How many disabled people currently work at TfL in both full-time and part-time work;

·         How many non-disabled people currently work at TfL in both full-time and part-time work;

·         How many applications did TfL receive in 2017 from disabled people for both full-time and part-time posts?

·         The retention rate of disabled employees at TfL over the past five years compared to non-disabled employees;

·         Any information that TfL holds on its disability employment gap.

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