Question follow-through · 5157
Employment: Migraines
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of migraine on employment, absenteeism and economic inactivity.
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 29 May 2026
- Target answer date
- 2 Jun 2026
- Answer
- 9 Jun 2026 · 11 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
29 May 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of migraine on employment, absenteeism and economic inactivity.
2 Jun 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
9 Jun 2026
Answer published
No assessment has been made of the potential impact of migraine on employment and economic inactivity. This information isn’t available as the Labour Force Survey, the primary source for data on labour market participation and economic inactivity, only re...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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