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Departmental Sick Leave

Mr. Hoban: To ask the Secretary of State for International Development how many working days were lost by his Department due to stress-related illness in each of the last 24 months. [198935]

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Gillian Merron: Details of the working days lost by the Department for International Development (DFID) to stress related illnesses for each month from January 2006 to December 2007 (i.e. the last 24 months for which collated details are available) are shown in the following table:

Working days lost to stress related illnesses
	2006	2007
January	148	156
February	142	75
March	157	30
April	120	24
May	105	18
June	84	15
July	60	38
August	63	56
September	36	65
October	67	104
November	120	154
December	188	147

Mr. Hoban: To ask the Secretary of State for International Development how many days sick leave were taken on average by staff in his Department in each of the last five years. [198949]

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Gillian Merron: For the years 2003-07 the average working days per employee lost to sick leave for the Department for International Development (DFID) are:

	Sick leave
2003	7.0
2004	4.8
2005	5.7
2006	5.0
2007	4.4

Mr. Hoban: To ask the Secretary of State for International Development how many of his Department’s staff took more than (a) five, (b) 10, (c) 15, (d) 20, (e) 25, (f) 30, (g) 35 and (h) 40 days leave due to stress in each of the last five years, broken down by pay grade. [198973]

Gillian Merron: The numbers of Department for International Development (DFID) staff, by pay grade, who took more than (a) five, (b) 10, (c) 15, (d) 20, (e) 25, (f) 30, (g) 35 and (h) 40 days leave due to stress in each of the last five years, are shown in the following table:

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Stress related sick absences
	>5 days	>10 days	>15 days	>20 days	>25 days	>30 days	>35 days	>40 days	Total
2003
SCS	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
A1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	2
A2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
A3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1
B1D	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
81	2	1	0	0	1	0	0	1	5
B2	1	0	0	1	1	0	0	1	4
C1	2	2	1	0	1	1	0	2	9
C2	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	3	4
Total	5	4	1	1	3	2	0	9	25
2004
SCS	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
A1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1
A2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	3
A3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
B1D	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
B1	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	1	4
B2	2	1	0	0	1	0	0	2	6
C1	0	1	0	0	0	1	1	2	5
C2	1	1	0	0	0	0	1	2	5
Total	4	5	0	0	1	1	2	11	24
2005
SCS	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
A1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	2
A2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	2
A3	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
B1D	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
B1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	2
B2	0	1	1	1	0	0	0	4	7
C1	0	0	0	0	1	0	2	3	6
C2	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	3
Total	2	1	1	2	1	0	3	14	24
2006
SCS	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1
A1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
A2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1
A3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1
B1D	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
B1	1	1	0	0	1	0	1	2	6
B2	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	4	6
C1	2	1	2	3	0	0	0	3	11
C2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1
Total	4	3	3	3	1	0	1	12	27
2007
SCS	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
A1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1
A2	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	1	3
A3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1
B1D	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
B1	0	1	0	2	0	1	0	0	4
B2	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	3	5
C1	2	0	0	2	1	1	0	2	8
C2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Total	2	2	1	6	1	2	0	8	22

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