Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Sick Leave
(asked on 10th March 2016) - View Source
Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many and what proportion of officials of his Department took sick leave for reasons relating to stress in each of the last five years; and what proportion of total sick leave that leave was in each such year.
The number and proportion of staff (percentage of the FCO’s workforce for the relevant year) who took stress related absence for each of the last five years (1st January 2011 to 31st December 2015) is as follows:
2011 | 46 (0.79%) |
2012 | 43 (0.89%) |
2013 | 47 (0.99%) |
2014 | 27 (0.59%) |
2015 | 42 (0.97%) |
The proportion of stress related absence episodes against the total sick absence episodes for each of the last five years is as follows:
2011 | 1.96% |
2012 | 2.12% |
2013 | 2.41% |
2014 | 1.51% |
2015 | 2.15% |