Sick Leave: Stress Chris Ruane To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many working days were lost due to stress-related illness in each of the last 30 years. Jonathan Shaw The information the HSE holds on the estimated working days lost due to stress is as follows: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | |Days lost—rounded to nearest 1,000| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |2007-08 |13,547,000 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |2006-07 |13,760,000 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |2005-06 |10,537,000 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |2004-05 |12,820,000 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |2003-04 |12,803,000 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |2001-02 |12,919,000 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |19951 |6,465,000 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |1 The figure for 1995 was gathered using a different method from those for subsequent years, but is included for completeness; it should not be used for comparison purposes.| | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Health and Safety Executive collects this information by commissioning a self-reported work-related ill-health (SWI) survey conducted on its behalf by the Office for National Statistics as part of its Labour Force Survey. No data are available before 1995 and the SWI Survey has not always been conducted on an annual basis.