Written Question·Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office·UIN 94436

Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office: Mental Health

Tabled: 25 November 2025
Answered: 3 December 2025

Question

Rupert Lowe

Restore Britain — Great Yarmouth

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, how many staff in their Department have been on mental health leave for six months or more; and for what reason.

Answer

Seema Malhotra
The Civil Service publishes sickness absence statistics by organisation and by sickness reason, including mental ill-health. These figures are available in the publicly accessible Civil Service sickness absence reports on GOV.UK (https://www.gov.uk/govern...
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