§ Mr. Matthew TaylorTo ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to his answer of 28 July 2000,Official Report, columns 1023–4, regarding monthly outturns on sickness absence, if directors in his Department submit monthly or other regular reports on sickness absence; what unpublished statistics on sickness absence in his Department he holds; and if he will make a statement. [134829]
§ Miss Melanie JohnsonIncidences of sickness absence are reported by managers and collated centrally. Procedures for recording, monitoring and tackling sickness absence were reviewed in 1999 in line with the work on reducing absence following the July 1998 report on "Managing Attendance in the Public Sector".