Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many days have been lost due to sickness and (b) what the sickness absence rate was in the prison service in each year since 2010.

Latest figures on the number working days lost due to sickness and sickness absence rates since 31 March 2010 can be found in tables 16-18 in the HMPPS Workforce Statistics Bulletin at the following link:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/national-offender-management-service-workforce-quarterly-march-2017