Question follow-through · 94423
Department for Culture, Media and Sport: Mental Health
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many staff in their Department have been on mental health leave for six months or more; and for what reason.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Culture, Media and Sport
- Tabled
- 25 Nov 2025
- Target answer date
- 27 Nov 2025
- Answer
- 4 Dec 2025 · 9 calendar days after tabling
Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.
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Recorded timeline
25 Nov 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many staff in their Department have been on mental health leave for six months or more; and for what reason.
27 Nov 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
4 Dec 2025
Answer published
Civil Service sickness absence reports, which provide statistics for sickness absence by organisation and sickness reason, including Mental Ill-Health, are published on an annual basis. The publication of the 2025 report is currently planned for 18 Decemb...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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