Written Question·Department for Work and Pensions·UIN 100301

Statutory Sick Pay: Agency Workers

Tabled: 16 December 2025

Answered: 31 December 2025

Question

Andrew Rosindell

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps he is taking to support employment businesses in verifying Statutory Sick Pay (SSP) eligibility in circumstances where agency workers may be registered at multiple agencies and claim SSP from

Answer

Dame Diana Johnson

Currently, agency workers can sign up to work for multiple agencies and, once they have done some work under that contract, are eligible to receive Statutory Sick Pay (SSP) from each individual employer during periods of sickness absence. This will not ch...

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