Mr. Marlowasked the Minister for the Civil Service what percentage of absence from duty of civil servants arises from (a) sickness and (b) other causes.
Mr. Hayhoe[pursuant to his reply, 10 November 1983, c. 198]: At any one time an average of 4.3 per cent. of non-industrial, and 6.6 per cent. of industrial, civil servants are absent on sick leave. Records of absence grouping all other causes are not held centrally.