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1126557

	registered interest
	date	14/05/2019
	answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
	answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
	hansard heading	Department of Health and Social Care: Sick Leave
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many and what proportion of officials in his Department took sick leave for reasons relating to stress in the last 12 months; what proportion that leave was of total sick leave taken in his Department; and what the cost was to his Department of officials taking sick leave over that period.
	tabling member constituency	Carshalton and Wallington
	tabling member printed	Tom Brake
	uin	254066
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/05/2019 answer text <p>The number of employees in the Department from 1 April 2018 to 31 March 2019 who were absent due to mental health reasons, including stress was 46, this represented 3% of the total workforce. The proportion of sickness absence related to mental health reasons, including stress, was 22% of the overall sickness absence for the Department for the same time period.</p><p> </p><p>The estimated cost to the Department from 1 April 2018 to 31 March 2019 for employees taking sickness absence, is estimated at £936,927.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 22/05/2019 10:28:23 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	151 label Biography information for Tom Brake

1051280

	registered interest
	date	30/01/2019
	answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
	answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
	hansard heading	Department of Health and Social Care: Sick Leave
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many days of sick leave have been taken by staff in his Department due to (a) stress and (b) mental ill-health in each of the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Leicester South
	tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
	uin	214549
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/02/2019 answer text <p>Departmental information systems do not record sickness absence relating to stress as a distinct category, but rather includes them in figures related to mental health disorders which are shown in the following table.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Category</p></td><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>2016</p></td><td><p>2017</p></td><td><p>2018</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total days lost due to mental illness</p></td><td><p>2,397</p></td><td><p>2,194</p></td><td><p>1,852</p></td><td><p>1,832</p></td><td><p>1,419</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Notes:</p><p>Data as at 31 December for each year, except for 2018. 2018 is a rolling year figure from 1 October 2017 to 30 September 2018.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 04/02/2019 16:19:46 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

971775

	registered interest
	date	11/09/2018
	answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
	answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
	hansard heading	Department of Health and Social Care: Sick Leave
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the number of days of sick leave taken by staff in his Department for mental health reasons in each year since 2010.
	tabling member constituency	Ellesmere Port and Neston
	tabling member printed	Justin Madders
	uin	173649
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/09/2018 answer text <p>The Department information systems record sickness absence relating to “mental health disorders”, but not for “mental health reasons”. Mental health disorders can include disorders such as stress, anxiety, depression and long term mental illness.</p><p> </p><p>The following table shows the broader category of how many days have been lost in the Department due to sickness absence relating to mental health disorders since 2010.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>2010</p></td><td><p>2011</p></td><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>2016</p></td><td><p>2017</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Days Lost</p></td><td><p>2,151.4</p></td><td><p>1,457.9</p></td><td><p>1,932.8</p></td><td><p>1,510.9</p></td><td><p>2,153.2</p></td><td><p>2,193.9</p></td><td><p>1,851.8</p></td><td><p>1,832.0</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 17/09/2018 12:59:44 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders

894954

	registered interest
	date	30/04/2018
	answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
	answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
	hansard heading	Department of Health and Social Care: Sick Leave
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what information his Department holds on the amount of sick leave taken by staff in his Department due to mental health causes in the last two years for which data is available.
	tabling member constituency	Dewsbury
	tabling member printed	Paula Sherriff
	uin	139527
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/05/2018 answer text <p>I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave to the hon. Member for Liverpool, Wavertree (Luciana Berger) on 30 April 2018 to Question <a href="https://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-questions-answers/?page=1&amp;max=20&amp;questiontype=AllQuestions&amp;house=commons%2clords&amp;uin=138036" target="_blank">138036</a>.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 03/05/2018 12:53:47 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	4426 label Biography information for Paula Sherriff

891525

	registered interest
	date	25/04/2018
	answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
	answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
	hansard heading	Department of Health and Social Care: Sick Leave
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	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.
	tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
	tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
	uin	138036
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/04/2018 answer text <p>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.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Category</p></td><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>2016</p></td><td><p>2017</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Number of staff members who had days off sick due to mental illness</p></td><td><p>88</p></td><td><p>82</p></td><td><p>44</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Proportion of staff who had days off due to mental illness</p></td><td><p>4%</p></td><td><p>4%</p></td><td><p>2%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total days lost due to mental illness</p></td><td><p>2,194</p></td><td><p>1,852</p></td><td><p>1,832</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Note:</p><p>Data as at 31 December for each year.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 30/04/2018 15:40:06 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger