HC Deb 16 January 2002 vol 378 c325W
Mr. Bercow

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development if she will commission and publish an independent report on the reasons for the level of sickness absence in her Department. [26968]

Clare Short

The average rate of sickness absence in DFID in 1999 (the latest year for which published figures are currently available) was 7.31 days per staff year. This compares with a civil service-wide average of 10.1 days.

The Cabinet Office already commissions and publishes an independent annual report "Analysis of Sickness Absence in the Civil Service". This report includes details of the causes of absenteeism. The report for the year 2000 will be published shortly.

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