To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the average length of sickness leave per employee was at (a) the NHS Blood and Transplant Authority, (b) NHS Professionals, (c) the Commission for Social Care Inspection, (d) the General Social Care Council, (e) the Healthcare Commission, (f) the Appointments Commission, (g) the Mental Health Act Commission, (h) the Social Care Institute for Excellence, (i) the Hepatitis Advisory Group, (j) the AIDS Expert Advisory Group and (k) the Healthcare Regulatory Council in the most recent period for which information is available. (233297)

The information is as follows:

Charities

(h) Social Care Institute for Excellence is a charity: 4.6 days per employee

Advisory non-departmental public bodies

(i) Hepatitis Advisory Group

(k) AIDs Expert Advisory Group

Neither of these two bodies employ staff.