Department for Education: Sick Leave
(asked on 9th March 2016) - View Source
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many and what proportion of officials in her Department took sick leave for reasons relating to stress in each of the last five years; and what proportion of total sick leave such sick leave was in each such year.
The information requested is set out in the table below.
Financial Year | Number of staff with absence due to stress in period | % of all staff with absence due to stress (headcount as at end of period) | Working days lost due to stress as a % of total WDL in period |
2014-2015 | 111 | 3% | 16% |
2013-2014 | 87 | 3% | 14% |
2012-2013 | 91 | 2% | 12% |
2011-2012 | 69 | 2% | 11% |
2010-2011 | 65 | 3% | 16% |
We do not hold data on the causes of stress resulting in absence and it cannot be inferred that such stress is work related.