compassion leave and special leave

Summary

The requester asked for departmental figures regarding bereavement and compassionate leave following a previous request. The Cabinet Office disclosed statistics on paid and unpaid special leave for Civil Service and Manual & Craft staff across various government departments from 2015 to 2020.

Key Facts

• The response covers data for both Civil Service and Manual & Craft employees.
• Statistics are provided for the financial years 2015-16 through 2019-20.
• Data is broken down by specific departments including Health & Social Care, Education Sport & Culture, and Treasury.
• Smaller departments or sections were grouped together under an 'Other' category.
• The information was sourced from the Office of Human Resources database.

Data Disclosed

• 117
• 143
• 124
• 77
• 13
• 124
• 122
• 110
• 103
• 4
• 9
• 7
• 2
• 26
• 41
• 33
• 30
• 2015-16
• 2016-17
• 2017-18
• 2018-19
• 2019-20
• 943777
• 940045
• 2019-08-30
• 2019-09-04

Original Request

i did a request form ref number is 940045 what i am asking for is can you show me the different department figures relating to what i asked before

Data Tables (2)

Full Response Text

FoI Request 943777 Civil Service - Bereavement & Carer/compassionate leave Manual & Craft - Bereavement & Carer/compassionate leave Number of People Number of People

2015- 16 2016- 17 2017- 18 2018- 19 2019- 20

2015- 16 2016- 17 2017- 18 2018- 19 2019- 20 Special Leave Paid 117 143 124 77 13 Special Leave Paid 124 122 110 103 13 Cabinet Office 11 21 16 12 1 Cabinet Office

Education Sport & Culture 21 17 9 13 3 Education Sport & Culture 40 25 37 61 1 Enterprise 5 2 7 2 0 Enterprise

Environment Food & Agriculture 9 4 13 5 1 Environment Food & Agriculture 4 4 2 4 3 Health & Social Care 30 48 51 23 2 Health & Social Care 44 56 42 20 6 Home Affairs 1 3 5 3 1 Home Affairs 1 1

Infrastructure 11 13 5 5 0 Infrastructure 27 25 18 12 3 Manx Utilities (Water & Sewerage) 6 7 3

Manx Utilities (Water & Sewerage) 8 11 11 6

Treasury 13 16 11 8 5 Treasury

Other 10 12 4 6 0 Other

Special Leave UnPaid 4 9 7 2 2 Special Leave UnPaid 26 41 33 30 1 Cabinet Office

2 1

1 Cabinet Office

Education Sport & Culture 1 2 2

Education Sport & Culture 17 23 24 26 1 Enterprise 1

1

Enterprise

Environment Food & Agriculture 1

Environment Food & Agriculture

2

Health & Social Care

3 3 1

Health & Social Care 8 8 7

Home Affairs

Home Affairs

Infrastructure 1 1

Infrastructure 1 5 2 4

Manx Utilities (Water & Sewerage)

Manx Utilities (Water & Sewerage)

3

Treasury

1

1

Treasury

Government Office Douglas Isle of Man IM1 3PN Telephone: (+44) 01624 686244 Website: www.gov.im/co

Our ref: 943777 4 September 2019

Dear ###

We write further to your request which was received on 30 August 2019 and which states:

"i did a request form ref number is 940045 what i am asking for is can you show me the different department figures relating to what i asked before"

Please find attached the requested information. Please note the information is supplied as it is held on the Office of Human Resources database. Some smaller Departments/sections are grouped together under the 'other' category.

Please quote the reference number 943777 in any future communications.

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Yours sincerely