Sickness Absence (Hansard, 16 December 2002)

§ Mr. Miliband

The information is not available in the form requested. The table shows data on sickness absence¹ taken by full-time and part-time teachers in Portsmouth Local Education Authority and in the English maintained schools sector. The data cannot be broken down by phase or Parliamentary constituency and are provisional.

	Full time	Part time
	Teachers	Days absence	Teachers	Days absence
Portsmouth LEA	780	8,220	130	1,040
England	246,300	2,461,000	37,300	338,900
¹ Sickness absence on working days, whether paid absence or not, of teachers with permanent contracts or contracts of over one month, including teachers without QTS. The numbers of teachers taking sick leave includes an individual teacher only once however many periods of sickness absence they have had.

Source:

2001 data were taken from the Sickness Absence Statistical First Release. Final 2001 data will be published in the teachers statistical volume in January 2003.

Table 1: Estimated maintenance grant funding in real¹ terms
£ million
	1998–99	1999–2000	2000–01	2001–02	2002–03
England	663	670	670	684	696
Wales	41	41	42	43	44
England and Wales	704	711	713	728	740

Notes:

1. Figures have been converted to 1995–96 price levels using the November 2002 GDP deflators.

2. Figures may not sum due to rounding.

3. Includes medical and dental students and allied professionals, grant funding for whom under the new student arrangements, has been transferred to the Department of Health.