House of Commons Commission written question – answered at on 12 November 2012.
To ask the hon. Member for Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross, representing the House of Commons Commission, for how many and what proportion of days, on average, staff of the House of Commons service at each pay grade were absent from work as a result of ill health in each of the last five years.
The figures for the House of Commons and PICT are:
Average working days lost per employee (12 month period) | |||||
Payband | 2007-08 | 2008-09 | 2009-10 | 2010-11 | 2011-12 |
SCS | 1.9 | 3.0 | 3.5 | 1.1 | 1.2 |
A | 3.3 | 4.0 | 4.4 | 4.1 | 4.3 |
B | 5.3 | 4.0 | 4.0 | 5.3 | 5.2 |
C | 8.2 | 8.9 | 7.7 | 5.4 | 5.5 |
D | 9.6 | 8.1 | 8.9 | 9.9 | 8.6 |
E | 16.6 | 24.8 | 34.4 | 18.9 | 9.8 |
Craft | 11.9 | 12.3 | 12.3 | 15.7 | 15.1 |
Catering | 8.9 | 13.6 | 10.4 | 12.7 | 10.6 |
Total House(1) | 7.2 | 7.8 | 7.1 | 7.1 | 6.5 |
(1) Includes a small number of staff (e.g. sandwich students) not shown separately. |
The average number of working days lost through sickness absence in the House of Commons and PICT is lower than that in the economy in general. The Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development's ‘Absence Management Survey 2011’ gives an overall average of 7.7 days per employee per year, while the public sector average is 9.1 days per employee per year.
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