Jonathan Ashworth – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Jonathan Ashworth on 2016-03-10.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many and what proportion of officials of her Department took sick leave for reasons relating to stress in each of the last five years; and what proportion of total sick leave that leave was in each such year.
George Eustice
The table below provides details of the number and proportion of officials that took sick leave relating to Mental Health Disorders in the core-Department as at 31st December in each of the last five years.
|
Number of Staff |
Proportion of All Core Defra Staff |
|
|
31-Dec-11 |
69 |
2.9% |
|
31-Dec-12 |
70 |
3.3% |
|
31-Dec-13 |
76 |
3.5% |
|
31-Dec-14 |
52 |
2.5% |
|
31-Dec-15 |
70 |
3.6% |
We are unable to disaggregate stress from the category mental disorders. This category includes personality and behavioural disorders and lists 24 descriptors of which stress is one.
