Department of Health and Social Care: Sick Leave

(asked on 13th November 2023) - View Source

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.


Answered by
Andrew Stephenson Portrait
Andrew Stephenson
Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
This question was answered on 30th November 2023

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.

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