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Departments: Sick Leave

Volume 457: debated on Wednesday 7 March 2007

To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many people were away on sick leave from her Department for more than (a) three months, (b) six months, (c) nine months and (d) one year in each of the last five years. (121434)

The number of people who were away on sick leave for more then three months, six months, nine months and one year, in each of the last five years is detailed as follows:

2003

2004

2005

2006

More than:

3 months

52

105

59

111

6 months

20

56

27

46

9 months

10

26

15

33

1 year

8

19

10

26

Notes:

Figures for 2002 are not available.

As the analysis for 2006 figures was carried out until the end of December 2006, absences of over three months but continuing beyond 31 December 2006 are recorded against 2006, even though they will finish in 2007 or later and will finally be recorded against the year in which they end. As such the 2006 figures are artificially inflated.