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Departmental Sick Leave

Volume 479: debated on Monday 21 July 2008

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs how many working days have been lost due to sickness among employees for which his Department and its predecessor were responsible for each year since 1997. (218038)

Information on sickness absence in the civil service is available at:

http://www.civilservice.gov.uk/about/statistics/sickness.asp.

Published data are available from the 2004 calendar year to the 2006-07 financial year. The number of working days lost due to sickness in DEFRA was as follows:

Days

2004

56,000

2005

59,826

2006-07

48,026

Data on days lost to sickness before 2004 could be provided only at disproportionate cost.