Written Question·Department for Work and Pensions·UIN 46719
Sick Leave: Respiratory Diseases
Tabled: 22 April 2025
Answered: 29 April 2025
Question
Jim Shannon
Democratic Unionist Party — Strangford
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate she has made of how many people have been absent from work because of long term sickness due to respiratory illness over the last 12 months.
Answer
Alison McGovernThe estimated number of people aged 16 to 64 in the UK who had a long-term (4 weeks or more) sickness absence from work due to respiratory illness, e.g. asthma, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease [COPD], bronchitis or pneumonia, between January and Dec...
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