The below Parliamentary question was asked by Andy Slaughter on 2016-05-20.
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prison officers for what reasons have taken long-term sick leave in each of the last five years.
Andrew Selous
Long-term sick leave is defined within the Civil service as periods of absence of more than 28 calendar days. The number of Band 3-5 prison officers to have taken at least one period of long-term sick leave in each of the last five years for which information is available is shown in the table below.
Table: Number of Band 3-5 Officers who had an incidence of sick leave of 28 or more days, by type of sickness, 2010/11 to 2014/15
|
Type of Sickness
|
2010-11
|
2011-12
|
2012-13
|
2013-14
|
2014-15
|
|
Blood and Blood-Forming Organs
|
~
|
~
|
~
|
10
|
10
|
|
Circulatory System
|
120
|
130
|
120
|
120
|
110
|
|
Digestive System
|
150
|
140
|
140
|
110
|
90
|
|
Ear and Mastoid Process
|
20
|
10
|
20
|
10
|
10
|
|
Endocrine, Nutritional and Metabolic Diseases
|
10
|
20
|
20
|
20
|
~
|
|
Eye and Adnexa
|
20
|
20
|
20
|
10
|
20
|
|
Genitourinary System
|
60
|
60
|
50
|
70
|
60
|
|
Infective and Parasitic Diseases
|
50
|
40
|
50
|
40
|
50
|
|
Injury and Poisoning
|
300
|
310
|
300
|
380
|
380
|
|
Mental and Behavioural Disorders
|
840
|
850
|
850
|
960
|
920
|
|
Musculoskeletal System
|
920
|
800
|
730
|
610
|
550
|
|
Neoplasms
|
40
|
40
|
40
|
40
|
40
|
|
Nervous System and Sense Organs
|
60
|
70
|
70
|
60
|
50
|
|
Pregnancy Complications
|
50
|
40
|
40
|
30
|
30
|
|
Respiratory System
|
50
|
50
|
60
|
40
|
40
|
|
Skin and Subcutaneous Tissue
|
20
|
20
|
30
|
20
|
10
|
|
Symptoms Ill-Defined
|
670
|
750
|
790
|
790
|
680
|
|
Not Recorded
|
80
|
80
|
90
|
80
|
160
|
|
Grand Total
|
3490
|
3430
|
3410
|
3390
|
3200
|
Where an officer has more than one period of long-term absence within a year for the same reason, they are counted once. Where multiple absences were for different reasons they are counted more than once.
All figures are rounded to the nearest 10, with numbers ending in 5 rounded to the nearest multiple of 20 to prevent systematic bias. As with all HR databases, extracts are taken at a fixed point in time, to ensure consistency of reporting. However the database itself is dynamic, and where updates to the database are made late, subsequent to the taking of the extract, these updates will not be reflected in figures produced by the extract. For this reason, HR data are unlikely to be precisely accurate, and to present unrounded figures would be to overstate the accuracy of the figures. Rounding to 10 accurately depicts the level of certainty that is held with these figures.
Totals are formed from unrounded parts prior to rounding. For this reason, rounded totals may not equal the sum of their rounded parts.
~ denotes suppressed values of 5 or fewer. Low numbers are suppressed, in conjunction with the rounding policy to prevent disclosure in accordance with the Data Protection Act, 1998.
