Sick Leave
Home Department
Mike Freer (Finchley and Golders Green, Conservative)
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many days on average her Department's staff in each pay grade were absent from work due to ill health in the last 12 months.
James Brokenshire (Old Bexley and Sidcup, Conservative)
Table l includes the average working days lost to sickness absence for each pay grade in the Home Department in the year
| Table 1: Average working days lost by grade October 2011 to September 2012 | |
| Grade | Average working days lost (days) (1) |
| AA | 10.35 |
| AO | 9.76 |
| EO | 8.04 |
| HEO | 5.67 |
| SEO | 4.93 |
| Grade 7 | 3.91 |
| Grade 6 | 3.01 |
| SCS | 2.84 |
| Total | 7.68 |
| (1) Figures given are based on paid civil servants only and include current employees and those who left the Home Office during the period, in line with Cabinet Office reporting guidelines. Figures include Home Office Headquarters, the United Kingdom Border Agency, Identity and Passport Service, Criminal Records Bureau and National Fraud Authority. Note: Prior to February 2011 responses to requests for information relating to the "Home Department" included information for headquarters staff only—Executive Agencies were excluded from reported figures. Since February 2011 the Department has streamlined its reporting practices and departmental figures now include both Headquarters and all Executive Agencies. This means that it is not possible to make a direct comparison. Extract Date: 1 October 2012 (Figures based on period from 1 October 2011 to 31 September 2012). Source: Permanent Secretaries Management Group Cabinet Office return, Quarter 3 2012 | |