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Subsistence
£
	2005-06	2006-07	2007-08	2008-09
Avon and Somerset	17,534	17,827	16,799	23,161
Bedfordshire	8,831	7,797	6,543	5,207
Cambridgeshire	17,379	16,262	12,141	9,318
Cheshire	7,409	8,416	4,561	24,773
Cleveland	10,428	12,649	7,837	8,275
Cumbria	21,039	13,792	10,776	11,461
Derbyshire	8,213	12,831	7,514	7,248
Devon and Cornwall	28,068	55,794	36,208	24,860
Dorset	12,569	15,135	12,374	12,311
Durham	5,600	6,238	9,724	3,298
Dyfed Powys	14,760	15,039	12,165	16,755
Essex	20,442	24,684	19,989	26,381
Gloucestershire	9,964	6,255	5,227	5,811
Greater Manchester	39,879	44,281	48,784	48,398
Gwent	11,976	6,727	10,996	7,254
Hampshire	20,801	34,070	16,488	15,376
Hertfordshire	12,511	22,912	16,242	4,356
Humberside	13,215	13,927	13,065	10,960
Kent	12,954	18,429	17,509	28,536
Lancashire	17,955	13,707	15,629	18,176
Leicestershire	10,952	10,780	4,851	5,662
Lincolnshire	12,230	13,538	6,636	3,697
Merseyside	22,824	17,278	23,107	15,804
Metropolitan and City	51,133	80,549	39,165	35,873
Norfolk	14,938	8,258	7,308	8,398
Northamptonshire	5,499	8,741	7,742	6,540
Northumbria	18,539	23,394	18,265	20,626
North Wales	18,655	16,607	8,571	9,452
North Yorkshire	5,621	6,480	4,603	5,146
Nottinghamshire	8,193	5,973	7,287	9,563
South Wales	30,800	26,625	18,565	23,106
South Yorkshire	11,496	15,791	14,711	16,366
Staffordshire	10,470	8,351	9,089	6,088
Suffolk	11,302	12,165	10,815	6,974
Surrey	4,146	3,276	4,486	8,313
Sussex	12,050	14,430	15,137	12,308
Thames Valley	31,704	23,557	13,384	18,464
Warwickshire	2,356	8,220	3,442	3,548
West Mercia	24,835	35,732	24,549	20,672
West Midlands	23,579	20,775	14,296	16,362
West Yorkshire	27,130	36,646	25,108	19,533
Wiltshire	14,896	16,969	13,521	11,092
CPS Direct	39,159	56,039	38,087	52,236
Organised Crime Division	14	175,468	195,696	194,636
Special Crime Division	-	43,732	22,644	39,708
Counter-terrorism Division	-	22,098	32,164	49,623
Headquarters	767,901	677,041	632,617	553,362
Business Centres	67,752	106,440	102,207	110,252
Total	1,559,701	1,861,726	1,618,624	1,595,318

Mr. Garnier: To ask the Solicitor-General how many days of sick leave were taken by Crown Prosecution Service employees (a) on average and (b) in total in (i) London and (ii) each of the 42 regional offices in each of the last five years; and what estimate she has made of the average cost per head to her Department of such
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leave (A) in total and (B) at each location in each such year. [305459]

The Solicitor-General: The average number of days sick absence taken by Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) staff in 2008-09 was 8.5 days per staff year. A total of
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69,841.5 working days were recorded as sickness absence at an estimated salary cost of £1,045 per head. The following table shows the absence rates, total absence days and estimated salary cost per head for each CPS area for the previous five year period to March 2009.

Average number of sick days for CPS areas
	April to March
CPS	2008-09	2007-08	2006 - 07	2005 - 06	2004 - 05
Avon and Somerset	7.5	7.4	6.7	6.8	9.2
Bedfordshire	3.5	3.5	5.5	6.7	6.4
Cambridgeshire	9.5	6.3	7.3	7.2	8.3
Cheshire	8.4	8.5	5.8	7	9.2
Cleveland	10.1	9.0	10.2	10.9	7.1
CPS Direct	7.0	5.0	5.2	5.8	5.2
Cumbria	7.1	17.6	19.7	10.8	10.2
Derbyshire	13.6	10.5	11.9	13.1	13.9
Devon and Cornwall	13.6	14.3	11.9	11.9	9.9
Dorset	7.7	13.5	8.4	7.8	12.5
Durham	10.1	8.2	9.2	7.1	11.8
Dyfed-Powys	3.7	11.7	12.2	7.8	6.7
Essex	10.4	13.6	14.4	13	10.2
Gloucestershire	4.3	6.7	8.3	12.1	9.3
Greater Manchester	8.5	8.0	8.6	6.9	8
Gwent	5.9	6.3	9.1	6.2	6
Hampshire	7.0	8.2	8.4	7.4	8.1
Hertfordshire	8.7	7.9	6.2	6.2	5.5
Humberside	6.6	6.1	4.4	8	10
Kent	12.7	9.5	8.2	7.1	6.9
Lancashire	8.3	10.5	9.7	8.5	7
Leicestershire	10.2	11.1	9.5	8.8	8.2
Lincolnshire	8.8	16.0	9.4	8.7	14.2
London	9.5	10.8	9.5	10.6	9.6
Merseyside	10.9	12.7	11.1	10.9	10.1
Norfolk	5.7	8.6	4.8	7.4	11.4
North Wales	4.8	8.5	9	6.3	3
North Yorkshire	5.3	9.1	7.5	5.4	4.7
Northamptonshire	6.0	4.7	5.9	7.7	7
Northumbria	11.5	10.1	8.3	10.5	8.3
Nottinghamshire	9.3	6.8	7.5	11.5	13.2
South Wales	5.3	11.7	8.9	9.1	11
South Yorkshire	9.4	10.3	8.9	6.8	7.8
Staffordshire	6.5	13.0	7.6	7.2	9
Suffolk	9.0	7.3	9.6	7.7	5.3
Surrey	5.4	9.8	13.8	12.7	6.6
Sussex	8.6	8.1	6.6	7	9.6
Thames Valley	4.9	8.4	6.3	6.5	5.4
Warwickshire	4.5	2.5	5.2	4.4	6
West Mercia	11.0	11.4	12.3	8.8	11.6
West Midlands	8.8	8.6	9.7	8.3	7
West Yorkshire	8.5	6.6	8.9	8.8	11.8
Wiltshire	10.9	10.1	7.8	6.8	5.5
Total CPS	8.5	9.4	8.7	8.6	8.7

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