Question follow-through · 71778
Unemployment: Health
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment her Department has made of the causes of economic inactivity related to poor health.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 29 Aug 2025
- Target answer date
- 2 Sept 2025
- Answer
- 4 Sept 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
29 Aug 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment her Department has made of the causes of economic inactivity related to poor health.
2 Sept 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
4 Sept 2025
Answer published
There were 2.8m people who were economically inactive with long-term sickness as their main reason in the UK in April to June 2025.1 This group accounts for 30.7% of the total inactive population and is the most common reason given for inactivity; this pe...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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