Question follow-through · 57238
Sick Leave: Stress
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment her Department has made of the number of people on long term sick leave due to stress over the last 12 months.
About this written question
A written question asks a government minister for information in writing. Parliament publishes the question and any answer.
- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 4 Jun 2025
- Target answer date
- 9 Jun 2025
- Answer
- 16 Jun 2025 · 12 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
4 Jun 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment her Department has made of the number of people on long term sick leave due to stress over the last 12 months.
9 Jun 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
16 Jun 2025
Answer published
Data is not available for sickness absence specifically due to stress. The estimated number of people aged 16 to 64 in the UK who had a long-term (4 weeks or more) sickness absence from work due to stress, depression, anxiety and common mental health prob...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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