§ Mr. SMEDLEY CROOKEasked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury whether he will give an analysis of the sick-leave figures quoted by him on 15th December, 1926, showing the departments from which the figures were taken, and giving the average sick-leave absence in days for writing assistants, and women and men clerical officers respectively?
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§ Mr. RONALD McNEILLThe statistics to which my hon. Friend refers were based upon returns furnished in respect of the headquarters staffs of the Admiralty, Air Ministry and War Office, the Ministry of Pensions (including staff employed at Acton) and the Department of Inland Revenue, and also in respect of the headquarters and ex-headquarters staffs of the Department of Customs and Excise, and the Ministries of Agriculture and Fisheries, Health and Labour. These returns relate to the average amount of sick-leave absence in days of all grades of established civil servants represented on the staffs in question for each of the years 1922, 1923, 1924 and 1925, but I regret that the information available in the returns is not in a form which would enable me to give my hon. Friend the separate details which he desires in regard to the particular grades of established employès referred to in the latter part of the question.