Written Question·Department for Energy Security and Net Zero·UIN 97899

Department for Energy Security and Net Zero: Sick Leave

Tabled: 8 December 2025
Answered: 16 December 2025

Question

Neil O'Brien

ConservativeHarborough, Oadby and Wigston

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, 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 ma

Answer

Michael Shanks
The current AWDL for the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero is 3.8. The department does not have any Arms length’s bodies that are requested to submit AWDL figures. The requested data is not held centrally in a reportable format.