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Departments: Sick Leave

Volume 461: debated on Tuesday 19 June 2007

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Dr. Cable

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what average number of days per year was taken by staff in his Department as sick leave in each of the last five years for which records are available. (143107)

Mr. Dhanda

The information is set out in the following table.

Calendar year

Average number days lost through sick leave per staff year

2005

8.9

2004

9.0

2003

10.3

2002

9.8

2001

8.4

The data are taken from the report ‘Analysis of Sickness Absence in the Civil Service’, which Cabinet Office publishes annually.