FOI Christmas Day Sickness (0586-2022/23)

Request

Q1. How many employees of your organisation were registered as off-sick on Christmas day for the following years: 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017?

Response

Extent and Result of Searches to Locate Information

To locate the information relevant to your request searches were conducted within North Yorkshire Police. I can confirm that the information you have requested is held by North Yorkshire Police. 

Decision

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

Q1. Please see the below table which shows the number of North Yorkshire Police employees who were registered as ‘sick’ on 25 December from 2017 to 2021, broken down by year.

2017	2018	2019	2020	2021
151	158	145	87	186

I have not included the figure for 2022 as per your request as we have not yet reached that date for 2022.

It is of note that this includes employees who were on long term sick as well as those who were sick for shorter periods.

Please note that systems used for recording information are not generic, nor are the procedures used locally in capturing the data.  It should be noted therefore that this force’s response to your questions should not be used for comparison purposes with any other responses you may receive.