Question follow-through · 112102
Civil Servants: Sick Leave
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what comparative assessment he has made of levels of long term sickness absence in the Civil Service between (a) 2020 and (b) 2025.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Cabinet Office
- Tabled
- 10 Feb 2026
- Target answer date
- 23 Feb 2026
- Answer
- 23 Feb 2026 · 13 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
10 Feb 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what comparative assessment he has made of levels of long term sickness absence in the Civil Service between (a) 2020 and (b) 2025.
23 Feb 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
23 Feb 2026
Answer published
Civil Service sickness absence data was published on 16 December 2025 and includes trends in long term absences in the Civil Service between 2020 and 2025. (Source: Civil Service sickness absence data published on 16 December 2025)
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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