Ms Christabelle Feeney:

I am interested in the Deputy's point about people's reluctance to respond to those types of surveys. That is probably a huge obstacle in terms of reporting within the public sector. I tried to work with a number of semi-State bodies on this around the language they use when collecting data on the number of individuals or the percentage of individuals within the organisation who have disabilities. As things stand, it is quite medical and clinical because the surveys that are shared literally just take the Disability Act 2005 definition of disability, which is very short and does not really encompass all of the disabilities that people might be living with or how they might self-identify. Even within the public sector much work is needed around the language being presented to our employees in order to encourage them and give them the confidence in the organisation to share that information and not just be a box-ticking exercise so that people feel that this information is being requested because we want to create a more inclusive organisation.