Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many and what proportion of officials in her Department are on long-term sick leave.
The Department defines long-term sick leave to be four weeks or more of sickness absence. Our central data shows there were 13 members of staff on long-term sick leave on 31 July 2023, this equates to approximately 0.4% of the total number of staff in the Department at the time.