The Home Office is unable to provide information on how many staff have retired on grounds of stress-related illness. Our database records any retirement that is as a result of sickness as a ‘medical retirement’. The Home Office is committed to reducing work related stress and ensuring, so far as is reasonably practicable, the health, safety and welfare of all employees. The Home Office policy is concerned with managing the risk factors of stress in the workplace for the reduction or elimination (so far as is reasonably practicable) of the causes of work-related stress, together with the provision of support for staff who may experience stress from any cause.