Departmental Sick Leave
Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform
David Simpson (Upper Bann, DUP)
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform how many and what percentage of staff in his Department and its predecessor have had more than two periods of sickness of less than five days in each of the last three years.
Gareth Thomas (Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Trade and Consumer Affairs), Department for Business, Enterprise & Regulatory Reform; Harrow West, Labour)
BERR's records, and its predecessor, the Department for Trade and Industry, show:
| BERR HQ including UKTI staff who have had more than two periods of sickness of less than five days | ||
| Number | Percentage | |
| 2007-08 | 385 | 12 |
| 2006-07 | 478 | 12.5 |
| 2005-06 | 480 | 11 |