Question follow-through · 94436
Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office: Mental Health
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, 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
- Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
- Tabled
- 25 Nov 2025
- Target answer date
- 27 Nov 2025
- Answer
- 3 Dec 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
- Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: Second Reading · 11 Sept 2026
- Health Bill: Report Stage: Amendment 1 · 8 Sept 2026
- Health Bill: Report Stage: New Clause 143 · 8 Sept 2026
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Recorded timeline
25 Nov 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, 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.
3 Dec 2025
Answer published
The Civil Service publishes sickness absence statistics by organisation and by sickness reason, including mental ill-health. These figures are available in the publicly accessible Civil Service sickness absence reports on GOV.UK (https://www.gov.uk/govern...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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