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Occupational Health: Costs

Volume 479: debated on Monday 21 July 2008

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what estimate he has made of the cost to (a) the economy and (b) the Exchequer of stress-related illnesses in the last year. (220749)

Dame Carol Black's review of the health of Britain's working age population estimated that the cost to the economy of sickness absence and worklessness associated with working age ill-health are over £100 billion a year, which includes stress related illness.