Question follow-through · 62630
NHS: Sick Leave
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to paragraph 2.4 of the Spending Review Departmental Efficiency Plans, published on 11 June 2025, what the sickness absence rate was for NHS entities included in the NHS Productivity
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 25 Jun 2025
- Target answer date
- 30 Jun 2025
- Answer
- 7 Jul 2025 · 12 calendar days after tabling
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- Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: Second Reading · 11 Sept 2026
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Recorded timeline
25 Jun 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to paragraph 2.4 of the Spending Review Departmental Efficiency Plans, published on 11 June 2025, what the sickness absence rate was for NHS entities included in the NHS Productivity
30 Jun 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
7 Jul 2025
Answer published
Sickness absence rates are published monthly and are available on the NHS England Digital website, at the following link:https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/publications/statistical/nhs-sickness-absence-ratesThe NHS Productivity Plan referenced in...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
Strong links require the same MP, department and exact heading. Other same-department questions are shown as unreviewed candidates, not as confirmed follow-ups. No debate link is asserted unless a stable source relationship exists.
Hospices: Children
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Poisons: Research
18 Jun 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made of the level of Sovereign Capability in Toxicology.