Department for Education: Sick Leave
(asked on 26th April 2018) - View Source
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, 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.
This question was answered on 1st May 2018
The table below shows what proportion of the department’s staff that have had days lost due to mental illness or stress.
1 January – 31 December | Working days lost due to mental illness/stress | Number of staff absent | Percentage of all staff employed in period |
2015 | 4471 | 175 | 4% |
2016 | 4916 | 159 | 3% |
2017 | 5617 | 235 | 4% |