Question follow-through · 94438
Home Office: Mental Health
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, 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
A written question asks a government minister for information in writing. Parliament publishes the question and any answer.
- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 25 Nov 2025
- Target answer date
- 27 Nov 2025
- Answer
- 3 Dec 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.
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 the Home Department, 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
Civil Service sickness absence reports, which provide statistics for sickness absence by organisation and sickness reason, including Mental Ill-Health.https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/sickness-absence
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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