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Departments: Sick Leave

Volume 462: debated on Tuesday 10 July 2007

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David Simpson

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many staff in his Department have taken (a) five or more, (b) four, (c) three and (d) two periods of sick leave of less than five days in the last 12 months. (147042)

Mrs. McGuire

The information requested is shown in the following table.

DWP employee's sick leave periods of less than five calendar days in the 12 monthsended 31 March 2007

Number of periods

Number of staff

2

18,866

3

9,554

4

4,430

5 or more

5,045

Total

37,895