Speeches

Jonathan Ashworth – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Jonathan Ashworth on 2016-03-10.

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many and what proportion of officials of his 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.

Mr Tobias Ellwood

The number and proportion of staff (percentage of the FCO’s workforce for the relevant year) who took stress related absence for each of the last five years (1st January 2011 to 31st December 2015) is as follows:

2011

46 (0.79%)

2012

43 (0.89%)

2013

47 (0.99%)

2014

27 (0.59%)

2015

42 (0.97%)

The proportion of stress related absence episodes against the total sick absence episodes for each of the last five years is as follows:

2011

1.96%

2012

2.12%

2013

2.41%

2014

1.51%

2015

2.15%