Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many days of secondary education have been lost as a result of teacher absence due to work-related stress in each of the last three years.

The information requested is not held centrally. The ‘number of sickness absence days taken per teacher’ in state funded schools in England was 4.1 in academic year 2015/16, continuing a fall from 4.3 and 4.2 over the previous two years. This information is available in table 16 within the statistical first release ‘School Workforce Census in England, November 2016’ available to view here: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-school-workforce.

2016/17 information will be published in June.