Question follow-through · 97191

Home Office: Sick Leave

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the average number of working days lost to sickness absence per full-time equivalent member of staff was in (a) the Department and (b) its executive agencies in the last year; and how many formal

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Answering body: Home Office
Tabled: 4 Dec 2025
Target answer date: 8 Dec 2025
Answer: 5 Jan 2026 · 32 calendar days after tabling

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4 Dec 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the average number of working days lost to sickness absence per full-time equivalent member of staff was in (a) the Department and (b) its executive agencies in the last year; and how many formal
8 Dec 2025
Target answer date
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5 Jan 2026
Answer published
The current Average Working Days Lost (AWDL) is 8.12. Regarding the number of performance warnings issued to staff, this can only be obtained through disproportionate effort.

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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