Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will estimate the number of days lost to long-term sick leave (a) in total and (b) for reasons related to mental health in (i) Gillingham and Rainham constituency and (ii) Medway in each of the last three years.
The information requested is not available. Such information as is available on long-term sickness absence is published at https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/long-term-sickness-absence. In addition to this, there is an ONS publication on sickness absence here http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/dcp171776_353899.pdf