Employees registered as off-sick on Christmas day from 2017 to 2021

Freedom of information request reference no: 01.FOI.22.026810

I note you seek access to the following information:

How many employees of your organisation were registered as off-sick on Christmas day for the following years: 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017?

Decision

I have today decided to disclose the located information to you in full.

Please find below information pursuant to your request above.

Please find the table below which contains the information pursuant to your request above. The MPS does not hold data for Christmas Day 2022. The information requested has not accordingly been provided as it is not held by the MPS.

To help add context to the data that is held, I have included the total number of employees within the MPS at the given time and also added the percentages of those that were off sick. To give even further context, the increase in 2020 and 2021 sickness figures were due to employee’s reporting sick with Covid (not including those shielding/self- isolating and self-isolating working from home).

	Employees reported sick	% of employees	Strength headcount
2017	1395	3.4%	40,930
2018	1387	3.4%	40,796
2019	1405	3.3%	42,519
2020	1629	3.7%	44,453
2021	2817	6.2%	45,160