Department of Health and Social Care: Sick Leave
(asked on 25th April 2018) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many and what proportion of his Department's staff have had days off sick because of mental illness or stress in each of the last three years; and how many days off that amounted to in each of those years.
Departmental information systems do not record sickness absence relating to stress as a distinct category. Within the broader category that includes all mental health issues, the following table shows how many and the proportion of staff who have had days off sick and the total working days lost within that category in each of the last three years.
Category | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 |
Number of staff members who had days off sick due to mental illness | 88 | 82 | 44 |
Proportion of staff who had days off due to mental illness | 4% | 4% | 2% |
Total days lost due to mental illness | 2,194 | 1,852 | 1,832 |
Note:
Data as at 31 December for each year.