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Question No.

employ disabled people in the industrial sector

?

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SECRETARY FOR EDUCATION AND MANPOWER :

Sir, the main incentive

we have at the moment is that there is an Employer Aid Fund,

funded by the Community Chest, which

provides

in order

subsidies for employers adapting equipment to employ disabled

people. This fund is not fully utilised, so I am glad

of this opportunity to give some publicity to it,

and draw employers' attention to this opportunity.

to try

DR. IP : Sir, I am grateful to know that 36 per cent of

the disabled people surveyed were in open employment.

Could the Secretary for Education and Manpower inform this

Council, in detail, what do the rest of them, namely,

64 per cent of all disabled persons do, using the same

method of estimation that he has used?

SECRETARY FOR EDUCATION AND MANPOWER :

Sir,

the main results of the survey were that

35.7 per cent of the five main categories

of disability, aged between 15 to 60, were in open employment.

7.5 per cent were in sheltered workshops.

The rest of

them fell into categories of unemployed job-seekers, 9.9 percent;

unemployed non-job-seekers, 22.1 per cent; students, 10.4 per

cent; home-makers, 10.4 per cent and the retired, 4 per

cent.