Question follow-through · 64201

Cabinet Office: Sick Leave

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many (a) unauthorised and (b) sickness absences there were in the civil service in each of the last five years.

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Answering body: Cabinet Office
Tabled: 1 Jul 2025
Target answer date: 3 Jul 2025
Answer: 8 Jul 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

1 Jul 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many (a) unauthorised and (b) sickness absences there were in the civil service in each of the last five years.
3 Jul 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
8 Jul 2025
Answer published
Sickness absence data for the Civil Service is published annually, and is available here: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/sickness-absence. Individual departments are responsible for managing their workforces, including any instances of unauthor...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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