Department for Education: Sick Leave

(asked on 5th January 2018) - View Source

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many days' sick leave officials in her Department took for reasons relating to stress in the last year.


Answered by
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Nadhim Zahawi
This question was answered on 15th January 2018

The number of employees in the Department for Education from December 2016 to December 2017 who were absent due to stress was 102, this represented 2% of the total workforce. The proportion of sickness absence related to stress was 14% of the overall sickness absence for the department.

The total amount of sickness absence days in the Department for Education from December 2016 to December 2017 due to stress was 2652.

The estimated cost to the department from December 2016 to December 2017 for employees taking sickness absence, is estimated at £2,700,000.

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