Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 98532

Department of Health and Social Care: Sick Leave

Tabled: 9 December 2025

Answered: 22 December 2025

Question

Neil O'Brien

Conservative — Harborough, Oadby and Wigston

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, 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 many for

Answer

Karin Smyth

The average number of working days lost per full-time equivalent member of staff in the Department in the period between October 2024 and September 2025, the most recent period for which records are available, was 5.12.The average number of working days l...

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