Departments: Sick Leave

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department 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. (143056)

The information requested is given in the following table:

*Working days lost to sickness per FTE staff per year*
Business area	2002-03	2003-04	2004-05	2005-06	2006-07
Central Home Office	6.7	6.1	6.3	5.2	5.4
BIA	8.5	8.7	9.5	10.3	10.8
HMPS (Prison Service)	14.7	13.3	12.7	12.2	11.64
CRB (Criminal Records Bureau)	11	9.4	9.6	8.8	8.6
IPS (Identity and Passport Service)	10.9	11.1	11.4	10.3	10.1

Volume 461: debated on Wednesday 20 June 2007