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Mr. Bercow
To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many staff in the Department have been on long-term sick leave in each of the last two years. [115863]
Mr. Lammy
We have defined long-term sick leave to be—absence from work due to sickness for a period of 90 days and over.The information requested is shown in the table.
| Financial Year | 1Number |
| 2001–02 | 47 |
| 2002–03 | 22 |
| 1 Staff on long term sick leave | |