Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the average number of working days lost to sickness among (a) BAME and (b) non-BAME staff in her Department in the last 12 months.

This question was answered on 11th October 2022

Please see table below.

Ethnicity	Average Working Days Lost (AWDL)
Minority Ethnic	10.81
White	7.82

Period Covered: 01/07/2021 to 30/06/2022

Organisational Coverage: Home Office

Employee Coverage: In line with Cabinet Office guidelines on sickness absence reporting, the data is based on FTE of paid civil servants who had a sickness absence during the period covered.

Notes: Figures for Ethnicity are representative of only those staff where ethnicity is known. Those who ‘Prefer not to say’ or are ‘Not Surveyed’ have been excluded.

Average Working Days Lost (AWDL)
Ethnicity	Dec 2019	Dec 2020	Dec 2021
Minority Ethnic	8.42	6.84	10.22
White	6.71	5.49	7.01

Dec 2019 & Dec 2020: Adelphi - Home Office Human Resources Record System. Dec 2021: Metis - Home Office Human Capital Management System Period Covered: 1st January to 31st December each year
Employee Coverage: In line with Cabinet Office guidelines on sickness absence reporting, the data is based on FTE of paid civil servants who had a sickness absence during the period covered.