§ Mr. AshdownTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many police officers are on long-term sick leave in(a) each English police force and (b) each Avon and Somerset divisional force for the latest period for which such statistics are available; if he will restate these figures to show them as a proportion of total establishment officer strength in each case; and if he will make a statement. [107842]
§ Mr. Charles ClarkeInformation about the number of police officers on long-term sick leave is not held centrally. The table shows: the total number of police days lost in 1998–99 due to long-term sick leave for all forces in England and Wales; and the percentage of working days in that year lost as a result of long-term sick leave.
The same information is not held centrally for each division of Avon and Somerset Constabulary.
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Police days lost due to long-term sick leave—1998–99 Average police strength Total working days assuming 228 per officer based on average strength Police days lost due to long-term sick leave Percentage of working days lost to long-term sick leave Avon and Somerset 3,012 686,736 15,813 2.3 Bedfordshire 1,041 237,407 9,563 3.6 Cambridgeshire 1,295 295,260 9,117 3.1 Cheshire 2,111 481,308 16,958 3.6 City of London 790 180,120 6,021 3.4 Cleveland 1,471 335,388 10,703 3.3 Cumbria 1,160 264,480 5,726 2.2 Derbyshire 1,777 405,224 13,268 3.3 Devon and Cornwall 2,946 671,592 17,236 2.6 Dorset 1,303 297,084 7,055 2.4 Durham 1,552 353,856 8,871 2.5 Dyfed-Powys 1,044 238,032 5,950 2.5 Essex 2,936 669,408 21,124 3.2 Gloucestershire 1,113 253,764 7,721 3.1 Greater Manchester 6,913 1,576,164 64,372 4.1 Gwent 1,250 285,000 9,300 3.3 Hampshire 3,470 791,160 19,763 2.5 Hertfordshire 1,752 399,456 9,312 2.4 Humberside 2,021 460,788 8,609 1.9 Kent 3,269 745,332 18,668 2.6 Lancashire 3,331 759,468 22,601 3.1 Leicestershire 2,037 464,436 12,626 2.8 Lincolnshire 1,171 266,988 8,140 3.1 Merseyside 4,373 996,930 42,234 4.4 Metropolitan police 26,566 6,057,048 188,602 3.2 Norfolk 1,426 325,128 7,654 2.4 North Wales 1,416 322,848 9,561 3 North Yorkshire 1,360 310,080 9,761 3.2 Northamptonshire 1,167 266,094 6,261 2.4 Northumbria 3,854 878,598 32,218 3.7 Nottinghamshire 2,248 512,544 20,725 4.1 South Wales 2,989 681,492 33,385 4.9 South Yorkshire 3,165 721,506 18,966 2.6 Staffordshire 2,279 519,498 20,291 4 Suffolk 1,195 272,460 5,688 2.1 Surrey 1,680 383,136 9,496 2.5 Sussex 2,962 675,336 16,794 2.6 Thames Valley 3,822 871,491 33,478 3.9 Warwickshire 925 210,786 7,066 3.4 West Mercia 2,033 463,524 9,273 2 West Midlands 7,250 1,653,000 55,721 3.3 West Yorkshire 5,053 1,152,084 36,821 3.2 Wiltshire 1,169 266,532 5,612 2.3 England and Wales Total 125,695 28,658,567 897,125 3.2