Question follow-through · 98538
Department for Work and Pensions: Sick Leave
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, 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 p
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 9 Dec 2025
- Target answer date
- 11 Dec 2025
- Answer
- 5 Jan 2026 · 27 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
9 Dec 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, 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 p
11 Dec 2025
Target answer date
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5 Jan 2026
Answer published
DWP’s absence data is publicly available in the https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/sickness-absence., which includes the average working days lost. The Cabinet Office collates sickness absence data from DWP on a quarterly basis, and this management...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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