Speeches

Chris Ruane – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Cabinet Office

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Chris Ruane on 2014-06-04.

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many days of employee absence there were in each Government department in each of the last 10 years.

Mr Francis Maude

It is for individual departments to provide detailed information on absence for each of the last ten years.

This Government is working to reduce Civil Service absence levels and we know that the average days lost per employee has fallen from 8.7 in June 2010 to 7.4 in December 2013. Average Working Days Lost per staff year are now at their lowest reported figure since 1999, whilst the total number of days lost in the Civil Service is at its lowest recorded level.

The figures for the Cabinet Office are:

Dec

2003

Dec

2004

Dec 2005

2005-06

2006-07

2007-08

2008-09

2009-10

2010-11

2011-12

2012-13

Yr to Dec 2013

3.5

3.0

4.2

4.1

3.3

4.8

4.8

3.6

4.0

3.7

2.7

2.5

and can be found online here at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/cabinet-office-absence-data