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1126571

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date	14/05/2019
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Department for Transport: Sick Leave
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, 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	254080
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/05/2019 answer text <p>The Department and its Agencies have provided the responses below for the period 1 May 2018 to 30 April 2019.</p><ol><li>The number of staff that took sickness absence due to stress was 553. The Department and its agencies employed a total of 14,956 employees at the end of April 2019.</li><li>Of the total number of staff that took sickness absence, the proportion due to stress was 7.57%. The proportion of working days lost to stress, out of all days lost due to sickness absence, was 14.33%.</li><li>The total cost of working days lost to sickness absence for the period above is estimated at £13,710,056.78.</li></ol><p> </p><p>The Department has a number of sources of support for employees including a free-to-use Employee Assistance Programme, which offers up to six counselling sessions at a convenient location within days of referral, and a Wellbeing Buddy Network run by volunteers. It has also launched a Mental Health First Aid service run by trained volunteers for colleagues in immediate emotional distress.</p><p>The Department recognises the importance of the line manager in mental health, and has a resource available for line managers to provide guidance on managing colleagues with mental health difficulties/issues. It has also launched Wellbeing Action Plans, to guide line managers in conversations about wellbeing, including in relation to mental health.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 22/05/2019 09:33:59 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	151 label Biography information for Tom Brake

971781

registered interest
date	11/09/2018
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Department for Transport: Sick Leave
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, 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	173655
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/09/2018 answer text <p>The table below provides details on the number of days sickness absence for the central Department for Transport attributed to mental health reasons from the financial year beginning 1 April 2010 to 1 April 2016:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Period</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Total days sickness absence (FTE) due to mental disorders</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Average Working Days Lost (AWDL) for all sickness reasons, including mental health</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Average Working Days Lost (AWDL) due to mental health reasons</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>1 April 2010 - 31 March 2011</strong></p></td><td><p>1144</p></td><td><p>4.3</p></td><td><p>0.6</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>1 April 2011 - 31 March 2012</strong></p></td><td><p>1356</p></td><td><p>4.5</p></td><td><p>0.8</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>1 April 2012 - 31 March 2013</strong></p></td><td><p>1634</p></td><td><p>4.7</p></td><td><p>1.1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>1 April 2013 - 31 March 2014</strong></p></td><td><p>1436</p></td><td><p>3.3</p></td><td><p>0.8</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>1 April 2014 - 31 March 2015</strong></p></td><td><p>795</p></td><td><p>3.5</p></td><td><p>0.4</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>1 April 2015 - 31 March 2016</strong></p></td><td><p>1837</p></td><td><p>3.6</p></td><td><p>0.9</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>1 April 2016 - 31 March 2017</strong></p></td><td><p>1625</p></td><td><p>3.6</p></td><td><p>0.8</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>The Department has a number of sources of support for employees including a free to use Employee Assistance Programme which offers six counselling sessions at a convenient location within days of referral, and a Mental Health Buddy Network run by volunteers. We have also launched a Mental Health First Aid service run by trained volunteers for colleagues in immediate emotional distress.</p><p> </p><p>We recognise the importance of the line manager in mental health, and have a resource available for line managers to provide guidance on managing colleagues with mental health difficulties/issues. We have launched Wellbeing Action Plans, a tool to guide line managers in having conversations around wellbeing, including mental health.</p> answering member constituency Wealden answering member printed Ms Nusrat Ghani question first answered 19/09/2018 13:26:23 answering member 4460 label Biography information for Ms Nusrat Ghani
tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders

675608

registered interest
date	19/01/2017
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Department for Transport: Sick Leave
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many senior civil servants in his Department were on a leave of absence from work due to mental illness in each month of each year since its creation.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
uin	60805
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/01/2017 answer text <p>Records in the current reporting system go back to the beginning of 2009. Since this date, fewer than five senior civil servants have taken leave of absence for reasons related to mental health. Due to the low number of instances this figure cannot be broken down any further.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Holland and The Deepings answering member printed Mr John Hayes question first answered 26/01/2017 13:22:25 answering member 350 label Biography information for Sir John Hayes
tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger

637193

registered interest
date	15/11/2016
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Department for Transport: Sick Leave
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many working days were lost due to mental illness in his Department in each of the last three years.
tabling member constituency	North Norfolk
tabling member printed	Norman Lamb
uin	53076
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/11/2016 answer text <p>Stress is the biggest contributor to the category of ‘mental health’ illness. Whilst it affects relatively few members of staff compared to other categories for sickness absence, by its nature a significant number of working days can be lost by those with mental health illness.</p><p> </p><p>The Department for Transport and its agencies have lost the following number of working days due to mental health illness in the last three financial years:</p><p> </p><p>2013/14 – 27908</p><p>2014/15 – 32946</p><p>2015/16 – 28895</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Holland and The Deepings answering member printed Mr John Hayes question first answered 23/11/2016 14:52:14 answering member 350 label Biography information for Sir John Hayes
tabling member	1439 label Biography information for Norman Lamb

459052

registered interest
date	09/03/2016
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Department for Transport: Sick Leave
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many and what proportion of officials in his Department took sick leave for reasons relating to stress in each of the last five years; and what proportion of total sick leave such sick leave was in each such year.
tabling member constituency	Leicester South
tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
uin	30599
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/03/2016 answer text <p>The available levels of sickness absence relating to stress is presented below for the central department and each agency for each of the last five financial years:</p><p> </p><p><strong>Department for Transport Group</strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Number of officials taking stress leave</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>% staff taking stress leave</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Stress <br> sick days</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Total <br> Sick days</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>% Stress Days of <br> Total Sick Days</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2011/12</strong></p></td><td><p>401</p></td><td><p>2.12%</p></td><td><p>12063.93</p></td><td><p>111402.7</p></td><td><p>10.83%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2012/13</strong></p></td><td><p>393</p></td><td><p>2.08%</p></td><td><p>11934.16</p></td><td><p>101778.3</p></td><td><p>11.73%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2013/14</strong></p></td><td><p>344</p></td><td><p>1.83%</p></td><td><p>10816.44</p></td><td><p>95113.3</p></td><td><p>11.37%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2014/15</strong></p></td><td><p>425</p></td><td><p>2.28%</p></td><td><p>14473.77</p></td><td><p>105805.1</p></td><td><p>13.68%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2015/ Feb 2016 *</strong></p></td><td><p>410</p></td><td><p>2.70%</p></td><td><p>15118</p></td><td><p>108230</p></td><td><p>13.97%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Note to data table:</p><p> </p><p>*The current financial year uses sickness absence reported until end of February but to calculate % of total workforce uses the rolling FTE figures from December’s Cabinet Office returns. This is due to not having a quarter 4 rolling FTE or sickness absence, as the financial year has not yet finished.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Civil Service takes a holistic approach to managing sick absence and improving wellbeing. In the Department for Transport, we have focussed on specific actions to tackle the cause and to reduce the incidence of stress related absence. This includes:</p><p> </p><ul><li>Promoting the Employee Assistance Programme and other existing services to ensure staff are making the best use;</li><li>Providing line managers with guidance and training on how to recognise signs of stress and mental health;</li><li>Launching a ‘Mental Health Buddy’ network in the central Department;</li><li>Signing of a “Time to Change” Pledge which aims to end the stigma and discrimination surrounding mental illness; and</li><li>Introducing a Reasonable Adjustments Passport scheme to support colleagues with disabilities to more easily move between jobs, taking their adjustments with them.</li></ul><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Scarborough and Whitby answering member printed Mr Robert Goodwill question first answered 14/03/2016 13:54:45 answering member 1562 label Biography information for Sir Robert Goodwill
tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth