Asked by: Luciana Berger (Liberal Democrat - Liverpool, Wavertree)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, what conditions his Department has set which would trigger the implementation of Operation Black Swan.
Answered by Kevin Foster
The Cabinet Office is not aware of the existence of an Operation Black Swan.
Asked by: Luciana Berger (Liberal Democrat - Liverpool, Wavertree)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the estimated cost incurred will be in the event that the Government implements Operation Black Swan.
Answered by Kevin Foster
The Cabinet Office is not aware of the existence of an Operation Black Swan.
Asked by: Luciana Berger (Liberal Democrat - Liverpool, Wavertree)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many people with autism have died by suicide in each year since 2010.
Answered by Chloe Smith
The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.
Asked by: Luciana Berger (Liberal Democrat - Liverpool, Wavertree)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many people with autism have died by suicide since 2010.
Answered by Chloe Smith
The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.
Asked by: Luciana Berger (Liberal Democrat - Liverpool, Wavertree)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many and what proportion of his Department's staff have had days off sick because of mental illness or stress in each of the last three years; and how many days off that amounted to in each of those years.
Answered by Oliver Dowden
The table below sets out information about working days lost in my Department due to sickness absence related to mental illness or stress in each of the last three calendar years.
Calendar Year | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 |
No. of Staff | 37 | 43 | 82 |
% of Staff | 1.3% | 1.2% | 1.4% |
Working Days Lost | 1443 | 1192 | 2225 |
In the year to 31st December 2017, an average of 2.15 working days were lost through sickness absence in the Cabinet Office. Levels of sickness absence in my Department remain amongst the lowest of all Government Departments.
The Cabinet Office is committed to reducing work related absence due to mental illness and has a number of services in place to support members of staff suffering from such conditions. Our Workwell community is staffed by volunteers who aim to make Cabinet Office a happy and healthy workplace through a number of interventions including a listening service for staff. We offer a 24 hour counselling support helpline through our Employee Assistance Programme provider and advocate early referral to our occupational health service where appropriate, for advice on a number of conditions including mental health. The Cabinet Office also has a pool of trained Mental Health First Aiders who provide face to face support and signposting to professional services.
Asked by: Luciana Berger (Liberal Democrat - Liverpool, Wavertree)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what estimate he has made of the (a) number and (b) proportion of people in (i) Liverpool, Wavertree constituency, (ii) the Liverpool City Region and (ii) England who are paid less than the Living Wage Foundation's living wage.
Answered by Chloe Smith
The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.
Asked by: Luciana Berger (Liberal Democrat - Liverpool, Wavertree)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many drug-related deaths there have been by age group in each of the last twelve months.
Answered by Chris Skidmore
The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.
Asked by: Luciana Berger (Liberal Democrat - Liverpool, Wavertree)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many people, broken down by age, with severe combined immunodeficiency disorder have died from that condition in each year since 2010.
Answered by Chris Skidmore
The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.
Asked by: Luciana Berger (Liberal Democrat - Liverpool, Wavertree)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many deaths have been registered for people between the ages of (a) 50 and 64 and (b) 65 and over since 24 June 2016.
Answered by Chris Skidmore
The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.
Asked by: Luciana Berger (Liberal Democrat - Liverpool, Wavertree)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many senior civil servants in his Department were on a leave of absence from work due to mental illness in each month of each year since the Department's creation.
Answered by Ben Gummer
The Prime Minister’s Office is an integral part of the Cabinet Office and is included in this reply.
It is not possible to provide figures for the number of senior civil servants who have taken leave of absence from work in my Department due to mental illness in each month of each year since its creation. As part of the Transparency Agenda, my Department publishes quarterly statistics on sickness absence and these are available from the Cabinet Office website at https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/cabinet-office-absence-data .
The Cabinet Office is committed to reducing work related absence due to mental illness and has a number of services in place to support members of staff suffering from such conditions. Our Workwell community is staffed by volunteers who aim to make Cabinet Office a happy and healthy workplace through a number of interventions including a listening service for staff. We also offer a 24 hour counselling support helpline through our Employee Assistance Programme provider and advocate early referral to our occupational health service, where appropriate, for advice on a number of conditions including mental health.