Question follow-through · 54254
Sick Leave: Mental Health
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of using mediation to facilitate an (a) easier and (b) speedier return to the workplace for people off work for (i) stress and (ii) mental heal
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 22 May 2025
- Target answer date
- 2 Jun 2025
- Answer
- 2 Jun 2025 · 11 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
- Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: Second Reading · 11 Sept 2026
- Health Bill: Report Stage: Amendment 1 · 8 Sept 2026
- Health Bill: Report Stage: New Clause 143 · 8 Sept 2026
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Recorded timeline
22 May 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of using mediation to facilitate an (a) easier and (b) speedier return to the workplace for people off work for (i) stress and (ii) mental heal
2 Jun 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
2 Jun 2025
Answer published
Employment Advisors in the jointly owned DWP-DHSC ‘Employment Advisors in NHS Talking Therapies programme’ provide advice and support to those suffering with stress and/ or mental health conditions to remain in or return to work. Though not formal mediati...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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