Written Question·Department for Science, Innovation and Technology·UIN 100464

Department for Science, Innovation and Technology: Sick Leave

Tabled: 16 December 2025

Answered: 22 December 2025

Question

Neil O'Brien

Conservative — Harborough, Oadby and Wigston

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, 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

Answer

Ian Murray

Sickness absence data for the Civil Service, including departmental breakdowns, are published annually and are available here: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/sickness-absenceThe requested data on formal warnings are not held centrally in a repo...

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