Sick Leave

(asked on 8th January 2015) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many staff in (a) his Department and (b) each of its non-departmental public bodies were absent from work through sickness in December 2014.


Answered by
Dan Poulter Portrait
Dan Poulter
This question was answered on 13th January 2015

The information requested is presented in the table below. For the Department’s executive non-departmental public bodies the information requested is not held centrally: consequently this data has been provided by the individual bodies.

Name of organisation

Number of staff absent from work through sickness during December 2014

Department of Health

195

NHS England

729

Monitor

36

Care Quality Commission

206

National Institute for Health and Care Excellence

111

Health and Social Care Information Centre

256

Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority

5

Health Research Authority

23

Human Tissue Authority

4

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