The Home Office, which includes the Immigration and Nationality Directorate and the Prison Service but not its other Agencies, is currently employing one foreign national under the terms of the 1955 Aliens’ Employment Act.
This information is not held centrally and could be obtained only at disproportionate costs.
I am advised that the number of staff in his Department that have had two or more periods of sick leave of less than five days in two or more years are show in the following table.
Number of staff Home Office (including Immigration and Nationality Directorate)1 2002-03 5,515 2003-04 7,180 2005-06 6,113 Identity and Passport Service2 2003-04 1,438 2004-05 1,389 2005-06 1,463 HM Prison Service3 2003-04 10,756 2004-05 9,950 2005-06 9,438 1 Data are provided on the basis of staff having on average* two or more days per spell of sickness. The figures for 2002-03 and 2003-04 are based on calendar days, those for 2005-06 on working days. 2 IPS figures show periods of less than five working days. 3 HMPS figures show periods of less than five calendar days. * ‘On average’ indicates a spell which includes staff who had a mean average of two days sick and not just two or more days in (each and every) spell of sickness in the period provided. Note: Because the material needed to be provided from archived reports run across the periods concerned on a particular basis (that of average values across the period) it was not possible to answer the question in the more precise form without disproportionate cost, in the time scale available.