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
Conservative — Harborough, 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 ShanksThe 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.