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1680848

registered interest
date	09/01/2024
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Cabinet Office: Sick Leave
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will make an estimate of the total number staff days lost to long term sick absences in each Department in each year since 2021.
tabling member constituency	Edinburgh West
tabling member printed	Christine Jardine
uin	8810
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2024 answer text <p>Cabinet Office publishes sickness absence data for the Civil Service on an annual basis on gov.uk. Our preferred measure is Average Working Days Lost (AWDL) per staff year which accounts for workforce size and composition. The table below provides the data requested, days lost per department, along with AWDL for context. Data for 2023 are in production for planned publication by end March 2024.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>Table: Long Term Sickness Absence by Department 2021 and 2022</p><p><strong> </strong></p><table><thead><tr><th rowspan="2" scope="col"><p>Organisation</p></th><th colspan="2" scope="col"><p>2021</p></th><th colspan="2" scope="col"><p>2022</p></th></tr><tr><th scope="col"><p>Days</p></th><th scope="col"><p>AWDL</p></th><th scope="col"><p>Days</p></th><th scope="col"><p>AWDL</p></th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><p>Attorney General's Departments</p></td><td><p>5,250</p></td><td><p>2.2</p></td><td><p>7,190</p></td><td><p>2.9</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Crown Prosecution Service</p></td><td><p>18,530</p></td><td><p>3.1</p></td><td><p>23,570</p></td><td><p>3.7</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Serious Fraud Office</p></td><td><p>830</p></td><td><p>1.8</p></td><td><p>940</p></td><td><p>2.0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy</p></td><td><p>34,010</p></td><td><p>2.1</p></td><td><p>47,160</p></td><td><p>2.5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Cabinet Office</p></td><td><p>13,090</p></td><td><p>1.4</p></td><td><p>20,750</p></td><td><p>1.9</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>National Savings and Investments</p></td><td><p>370</p></td><td><p>1.9</p></td><td><p>170</p></td><td><p>0.9</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Charity Commission</p></td><td><p>1,300</p></td><td><p>2.7</p></td><td><p>s</p></td><td><p>s</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities</p></td><td><p>6,850</p></td><td><p>2.0</p></td><td><p>7,670</p></td><td><p>2.0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Competition and Markets Authority</p></td><td><p>1,100</p></td><td><p>1.4</p></td><td><p>870</p></td><td><p>1.0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Department for Digital, Culture Media and Sport</p></td><td><p>2,670</p></td><td><p>1.3</p></td><td><p>4,110</p></td><td><p>1.4</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Ministry of Defence</p></td><td><p>219,380</p></td><td><p>4.1</p></td><td><p>149,690</p></td><td><p>2.8</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Department for International Trade</p></td><td><p>3,960</p></td><td><p>0.8</p></td><td><p>6,820</p></td><td><p>1.3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Department for Education</p></td><td><p>9,580</p></td><td><p>1.3</p></td><td><p>20,410</p></td><td><p>2.6</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs</p></td><td><p>19,210</p></td><td><p>1.9</p></td><td><p>27,070</p></td><td><p>2.4</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>ESTYN</p></td><td><p>410</p></td><td><p>3.9</p></td><td><p>320</p></td><td><p>3.1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office</p></td><td><p>16,750</p></td><td><p>1.9</p></td><td><p>18,830</p></td><td><p>2.3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Food Standards Agency</p></td><td><p>3,850</p></td><td><p>2.9</p></td><td><p>4,500</p></td><td><p>3.4</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>The Health and Safety Executive</p></td><td><p>7,440</p></td><td><p>3.2</p></td><td><p>10,520</p></td><td><p>4.2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Department of Health and Social Care</p></td><td><p>20,880</p></td><td><p>2.2</p></td><td><p>27,770</p></td><td><p>2.6</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>HM Revenue and Customs</p></td><td><p>189,360</p></td><td><p>3.2</p></td><td><p>243,040</p></td><td><p>3.9</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>HM Treasury</p></td><td><p>2,770</p></td><td><p>1.1</p></td><td><p>3,990</p></td><td><p>1.5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Home Office</p></td><td><p>109,360</p></td><td><p>3.4</p></td><td><p>148,080</p></td><td><p>4.5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Ministry of Justice</p></td><td><p>435,690</p></td><td><p>6.0</p></td><td><p>596,420</p></td><td><p>7.4</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>National Crime Agency</p></td><td><p>10,640</p></td><td><p>2.1</p></td><td><p>15,180</p></td><td><p>3.3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Northern Ireland Office</p></td><td><p>140</p></td><td><p>0.9</p></td><td><p>420</p></td><td><p>2.4</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Office for Standards in Education, Children's Services &amp; Skills</p></td><td><p>6,530</p></td><td><p>3.6</p></td><td><p>9,270</p></td><td><p>5.3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Office of Gas and Electricity Markets</p></td><td><p>2,260</p></td><td><p>2.1</p></td><td><p>2,650</p></td><td><p>2.1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Office of Rail and Road</p></td><td><p>590</p></td><td><p>1.9</p></td><td><p>290</p></td><td><p>0.9</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Scotland Office (incl. Office Advocate General for Scotland)</p></td><td><p>320</p></td><td><p>2.8</p></td><td><p>490</p></td><td><p>4.2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Scottish Government</p></td><td><p>111,300</p></td><td><p>5.4</p></td><td><p>134,510</p></td><td><p>5.9</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Department for Transport</p></td><td><p>51,950</p></td><td><p>3.6</p></td><td><p>71,260</p></td><td><p>4.9</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>United Kingdom Statistics Authority</p></td><td><p>9,250</p></td><td><p>2.4</p></td><td><p>10,070</p></td><td><p>2.2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>UK Export Finance</p></td><td><p>250</p></td><td><p>0.7</p></td><td><p>340</p></td><td><p>0.8</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>UK Supreme Court</p></td><td><p>*</p></td><td><p>*</p></td><td><p>280</p></td><td><p>5.2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Wales Office</p></td><td><p>230</p></td><td><p>4.4</p></td><td><p>190</p></td><td><p>4.1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Water Services Regulation Authority</p></td><td><p>570</p></td><td><p>2.4</p></td><td><p>250</p></td><td><p>1.0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Welsh Government</p></td><td><p>14,590</p></td><td><p>2.8</p></td><td><p>20,110</p></td><td><p>3.7</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Department for Work and Pensions</p></td><td><p>243,230</p></td><td><p>3.3</p></td><td><p>383,320</p></td><td><p>4.5</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><strong> </strong></p><p>Notes:</p><ul><li><p>Annual Data for year ending 31 March 2021 and 31 March 2022</p></li><li><p>Source – Management Information</p></li><li><p>Days rounded to nearest 10 days, AWDL rounded to 1 decimal place</p></li><li><p>s = suppressed due to data review, * = suppressed due to low counts</p></li><li><p>For sickness absence publications see <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/sickness-absence" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/sickness-absence</a></p></li></ul><p> </p> answering member constituency Salisbury answering member printed John Glen question first answered 15/01/2024 14:43:15 answering member 4051 label Biography information for John Glen
tabling member	4634 label Biography information for Christine Jardine

1126569

registered interest
date	14/05/2019
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Cabinet Office: Sick Leave
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, 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	254078
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/05/2019 answer text <p>The number of employees in Cabinet Office from 1 April 2018 to 31 March 2019 who were<br>absent for stress related reasons was 48. This represented 0.64% of the total workforce</p><p>The proportion of sickness absence related to stress related reasons was 11.35% of the<br>overall sickness absence for the department for the same time period</p><p>The estimated cost to the department from 1 April 2018 to 31 March 2019 for employees<br>taking stress related reasons, is estimated at £199,634</p><p>Cabinet Office sickness absence data is published regularly, and is available up to<br>December 2018 here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/cabinet-office-absence-<br>data</p><p> </p><p>The Cabinet Office wellbeing action plan enables support for all staff’s health and<br>wellbeing. Key initiatives include: running leadership wellbeing training for all Senior Civil<br>Servants, updating line manager training to ensure wellbeing is included in all<br>conversations, embedding wellbeing into the Senior Civil Service leadership objective and<br>including wellbeing in performance management monthly conversation tools</p><p>There are a number of support services available in Cabinet Office that provide support or<br>advice to all employees. These include the Cabinet Office alumni network, the Cabinet<br>Office listening service and the employee assistance programme.</p> answering member constituency Hertsmere answering member printed Oliver Dowden question first answered 22/05/2019 15:15:46 answering member 4441 label Biography information for Oliver Dowden
tabling member	151 label Biography information for Tom Brake

895549

registered interest
date	01/05/2018
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Cabinet Office: Sick Leave
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what information his Department holds on the amount of sick leave taken by civil servants for mental health issues in (a) his Department and (b) the civil service, in each of the last two years for which data is available.
tabling member constituency	Dewsbury
tabling member printed	Paula Sherriff
uin	140145
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/05/2018 answer text <p>The Civil Service recognises that good workforce health and wellbeing is fundamental to delivering effective public services. We support people so that they can remain at work where possible and to return as soon as they are ready following sickness absence.</p><p> </p><p>The Cabinet Office holds information on the amount of sick leave taken and the reasons for sick leave taken for (a) all of the civil servants in the Department who have recorded absence due to sickness. This includes sick leave for mental health issues that in each of the calendar years 2016 and 2017 amounted to less than 1 day of absence per staff year.</p><p> </p><p>Statistics on sick leave taken by staff in the Cabinet Office are published quarterly in arrears at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/cabinet-office-absence-data" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/cabinet-office-absence-data</a> .</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Cabinet Office collates data on sickness absence from (b) civil service departments and agencies on a quarterly basis in order to understand variation across departments and overall civil service trends. The data can be broken down across a range of types of illness including mental ill-health. The latest data held covers the years leading up to and including Q2 2017 (July 2016 - June 2017). In this period there was an average of 1.7 days per staff year of absence due to mental ill health across the civil service. In the previous year (July 2015-June 2016) there was an average of 1.8 days per staff year of absence due to mental ill health across the civil service.</p><p> </p><p>The latest Civil Service sickness absence data for Q1 2017 was published on 14 December 2017 and is available online at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/civil-service-sickness-absence" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/civil-service-sickness-absence</a> .</p><p> </p><p>The Civil Service continues to review how it can actively manage all sickness absence and improve health and wellbeing at work even further, ensuring that it consistently delivers the high level of service that the public demand and expect.</p> answering member constituency Hertsmere answering member printed Oliver Dowden question first answered 17/05/2018 16:08:56 answering member 4441 label Biography information for Oliver Dowden
tabling member	4426 label Biography information for Paula Sherriff

891521

registered interest
date	25/04/2018
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Cabinet Office: Sick Leave
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, 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	138032
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/05/2018 answer text <p>The table below sets out information about working days lost in my Department due to sickness absence related to mental illness or stress in each of the last three calendar years.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Calendar Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2015</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2016</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2017</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>No. of Staff</p></td><td><p>37</p></td><td><p>43</p></td><td><p>82</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>% of Staff</p></td><td><p>1.3%</p></td><td><p>1.2%</p></td><td><p>1.4%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Working Days Lost</p></td><td><p>1443</p></td><td><p>1192</p></td><td><p>2225</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>In the year to 31<sup>st</sup> December 2017, an average of 2.15 working days were lost through sickness absence in the Cabinet Office. Levels of sickness absence in my Department remain amongst the lowest of all Government Departments.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Cabinet Office is committed to reducing work related absence due to mental illness and has a number of services in place to support members of staff suffering from such conditions. Our Workwell community is staffed by volunteers who aim to make Cabinet Office a happy and healthy workplace through a number of interventions including a listening service for staff. We offer a 24 hour counselling support helpline through our Employee Assistance Programme provider and advocate early referral to our occupational health service where appropriate, for advice on a number of conditions including mental health. The Cabinet Office also has a pool of trained Mental Health First Aiders who provide face to face support and signposting to professional services.</p> answering member constituency Hertsmere answering member printed Oliver Dowden question first answered 24/05/2018 11:19:26 answering member 4441 label Biography information for Oliver Dowden
tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger

675430

registered interest
date	19/01/2017
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Cabinet Office: Sick Leave
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, 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 the Department's creation.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
uin	60794
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/01/2017 answer text <p>The Prime Minister’s Office is an integral part of the Cabinet Office and is included in this reply.</p><p>It is not possible to provide figures for the number of senior civil servants who have taken leave of absence from work in my Department due to mental illness in each month of each year since its creation. As part of the Transparency Agenda, my Department publishes quarterly statistics on sickness absence and these are available from the Cabinet Office website at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/cabinet-office-absence-data" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/cabinet-office-absence-data</a> .</p><p>The Cabinet Office is committed to reducing work related absence due to mental illness and has a number of services in place to support members of staff suffering from such conditions. Our Workwell community is staffed by volunteers who aim to make Cabinet Office a happy and healthy workplace through a number of interventions including a listening service for staff. We also offer a 24 hour counselling support helpline through our Employee Assistance Programme provider and advocate early referral to our occupational health service, where appropriate, for advice on a number of conditions including mental health.</p> answering member constituency Ipswich answering member printed Ben Gummer grouped question UIN 60773 question first answered 27/01/2017 08:15:27 answering member 3988 label Biography information for Ben Gummer
tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger

638280

registered interest
date	17/11/2016
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Cabinet Office: Sick Leave
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, 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	53510
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/11/2016 answer text <p>The table below sets out information about working days lost in my Department due to sickness absence related to mental illness over the last three calendar years.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Calendar Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2013</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2014</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2015</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Working Days Lost due to Mental Illness</p></td><td><p>1574</p></td><td><p>1382</p></td><td><p>1443</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>As % of All Sick Absence</p></td><td><p>39%</p></td><td><p>31%</p></td><td><p>29%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>As % of Total Workforce</p></td><td><p>1.7%</p></td><td><p>1.6%</p></td><td><p>1.7%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>The Cabinet Office is committed to reducing work related absence due to mental illness and has a number of services in place to support members of staff suffering from such conditions. Our Workwell community is staffed by volunteers who aim to make Cabinet Office a happy and healthy workplace through a number of interventions including a listening service for staff. We also offer a 24 hour counselling support helpline through our Employee Assistance Programme provider and advocate early referral to our occupational health service where appropriate for advice on a number of conditions including mental health.</p> answering member constituency Ipswich answering member printed Ben Gummer question first answered 24/11/2016 12:04:42 answering member 3988 label Biography information for Ben Gummer
tabling member	1439 label Biography information for Norman Lamb

459318

registered interest
date	10/03/2016
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Cabinet Office: Sick Leave
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many and what proportion of officials of his Department took sick leave for reasons relating to stress in each of the last five years; and what proportion of total sick leave that leave was in each such year.
tabling member constituency	Leicester South
tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
uin	30645
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/03/2016 answer text <p>The table below sets out information about sickness absence taken by officials in my Department relating to stress for each the last five years for which figures are currently available.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>No.of Staff</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>% of Staff</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>% of Total Working Days Lost</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>35</p></td><td><p>1.3%</p></td><td><p>31%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>37</p></td><td><p>1.5%</p></td><td><p>38%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p>23</p></td><td><p>1.0%</p></td><td><p>23%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011</p></td><td><p>31</p></td><td><p>1.5%</p></td><td><p>34%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010</p></td><td><p>27</p></td><td><p>2.0%</p></td><td><p>26%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2009</p></td><td><p>28</p></td><td><p>2.1%</p></td><td><p>20%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>The Cabinet Office is committed to reducing work related absence due to stress and has a number of services in place to support members of staff suffering from occupational stress. Our Workwell community is staffed by volunteers who aim to make Cabinet Office a happy and healthy workplace through a number of interventions including a listening service for staff. We also offer a 24 hour counselling support helpline through our Employee Assistance Programme provider and advocate early referral to our occupational health service where appropriate, for advice on a number of conditions including stress and mental health.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 16/03/2016 10:17:27 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock previous answer version 51556 answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth