§ Mr. WebbTo ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many working days per 100,000 workers were lost for reasons of work-related injury and ill-health in each of the last seven years. [184675]
§ Jane KennedyThe information is not available in the form requested. Estimates of the number of working days lost as a result of work-related injury are obtained every three years through the Labour Force Survey (LFS). The latest estimate, for 2000–01, is 27,900 working days lost per 100,000 workers, compared with an estimate of 25,800 in 1997–98.
For work-related illness, the only available estimate in the seven-year period is bared on information obtained from the 2001–02 LFS. The survey estimated that 140,000 working days per 100,000 workers were lost as a result of self-reported work-related ill-health.
A combined estimate for work-related injury and ill-health, covering 2003–04, will be published later this year.