Question follow-through · 100301
Statutory Sick Pay: Agency Workers
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps he is taking to support employment businesses in verifying Statutory Sick Pay (SSP) eligibility in circumstances where agency workers may be registered at multiple agencies and claim SSP from
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 16 Dec 2025
- Target answer date
- 18 Dec 2025
- Answer
- 31 Dec 2025 · 15 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
- Draft Code of Practice on Electronic and Workplace Ballots for Statutory Trade Union Ballots · 15 Jul 2026
- Draft Trade Unions (Permissible Means of Voting) and Employment Rights (Unfair Dismissal) (Amendment) Order 2026 · 15 Jul 2026
- Taxation (Energy and Vehicles) Bill Committee: New Clause 5 · 1 Jul 2026
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Recorded timeline
16 Dec 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps he is taking to support employment businesses in verifying Statutory Sick Pay (SSP) eligibility in circumstances where agency workers may be registered at multiple agencies and claim SSP from
18 Dec 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
31 Dec 2025
Answer published
Currently, agency workers can sign up to work for multiple agencies and, once they have done some work under that contract, are eligible to receive Statutory Sick Pay (SSP) from each individual employer during periods of sickness absence. This will not ch...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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