Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many officials in his Department took sick leave for reasons relating to stress in each of the last five years; and what proportion of (a) his Department's staff and (b) total sick leave such sick leave was in each such year.
The number of officials in the Department of Business, Innovation and Skills, including UKTI, who were absent for reasons relating to stress are shown in the table below.
| Number of people with a stress related absence | Number of people with a stress related absence as a % of total headcount | Total number of working days lost due to stress related absence as a % of total absence |
2015 | 52 | 1.62% | 21.8% |
2014 | 50 | 1.42% | 14.1% |
2013 | 67 | 1.91% | 19.6% |
2012 | 88 | 2.85% | 24.9% |
2011 | 84 | 2.68% | 18.6% |