Question follow-through · 17721
Civil Service: Sick Leave
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps he is taking to reduce the number of working days lost due to sick leave in the Civil Service.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Cabinet Office
- Tabled
- 10 Jul 2026
- Target answer date
- 15 Jul 2026
- Answer
- 15 Jul 2026 · 5 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
10 Jul 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps he is taking to reduce the number of working days lost due to sick leave in the Civil Service.
15 Jul 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
15 Jul 2026
Answer published
The Cabinet Office routinely benchmarks the Civil Service approach to employee sickness absence and health and wellbeing to ensure it aligns to best practice. The Civil Service provides its employees with a comprehensive range of health and wellbeing tool...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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