Departmental Sick Leave

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how many days of sick leave were taken by staff in his Department and its agency in each of the last 12 months for which figures are available; and what the cost to his Department was of such sick leave. (305556)

The information is as follows:

*Number of working days lost due to sickness during the period from 1 December 2008 to 30 November 2009*
	DCMS	The Royal Parks	Total
20008
December	134	52	186

2009
January	152	37	189
February	88	33	121
March	115	32	147
April	154	9	163
May	148	20	168
June	149	15	164
July	175	54	229
August	215	52	267
September	211	64	275
October	149	95	244
November	76	60	136
Total	1,766	523	2,289

*Cost of sickness for the period from 1 December 2008 to 30 November 2009*
£
	DCMS	The Royal Parks	Total
20008
December	23,852	9,256	33,108

2009
January	27,056	6,586	33,642
February	15,664	5,874	21,538
March	20,470	5,696	26,166
April	28,182	1,647	29,829
May	27,084	3,660	30,744
June	27,267	2,745	30,012
July	32,025	9,882	41,907
August	39,345	9,515	48,860
September	38,613	11,712	50,325
October	27,267	17,385	44,652
November	13,908	10,980	24,888
Total	320,733	94,938	415,671

Volume 502: debated on Thursday 10 December 2009