Official disability figures for Great Britain revised
The UK Disability Rights Commission (DRC) has announced that it will now use a figure of "about 10 million people" to estimate the number of people covered by the Disability Discrimination Act (DDA) in Great Britain. This updated figure is considered to be more accurate than the previous estimate of 8.6 million
disabled people which was based on outdated data from 1996/97. Not all of those 10 million people will use the term "disabled" about themselves but this estimate represents those thought to be covered by the DDA.
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