Written Question·Department for Work and Pensions·UIN 89061

Unemployment: Chronic Illnesses

Tabled: 10 November 2025
Answered: 17 November 2025

Question

Neil Duncan-Jordan

LabourPoole

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the Written Statement of 5 November 2025 on Keep Britain Working Review: Government Response, HCWS1020, if he will publish a categorisation of the nature of the health problems affecti

Answer

Dame Diana Johnson
DWP publishes data, as part of its Employment of Disabled People Official Statistics publication, on the number of people who are economically inactive due to long-term sickness. These statistics are broken down by main and main or secondary long-term hea...

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