Sick Leave: Stress
(asked on 1st May 2018) - View Source
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate her Department has made of the number of working days lost to the UK economy as a result of work-related stress in each of the last three years.
The latest available estimates are given below. They are published annually and show the estimated number of days lost (full day equivalent) due to self-reported stress, depression or anxiety, caused or made worse by work, for people working in the last 12 months in Great Britain. Figures are not separately available for the United Kingdom.
Year | Estimated days lost | 95% Confidence interval |
2014/15 | 9.9 million | 8.4m to 11.6m |
2015/16 | 11.7 million | 9.6m to 13.7m |
2016/17 | 12.5 million | 10.5m to 14.6m |
Source: Labour Force Survey (LFS)