Departmental Sick Leave

Norman Lamb
To ask the Minister for the Olympics how many staff in her Office were on sick leave for (a) over 30 days, (b) over 50 days and (c) over 100 days in each year since its inception.

Tessa Jowell
No members of staff in my private office have been on sick leave for 30 days or more since the inception of the Office.

Annual sick leave statistics are published on the Cabinet Office website in the “Analysis of Sickness Absence in the Civil Service”, a copy of which has been placed in the Library.