questionText: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many officials in his Department in (a) Liverpool, Walton constituency and (b) the UK have applied for ill-health retirement as a result of long covid in each of the last three years.
answerText: DWP does not request nor obtain evidence to assess applications for ill health retirement due to long covid. The Department does monitor levels and trends in short- and long-term sickness absence across all types of sickness absence recorded on DWP’s own ...
heading: Department for Work and Pensions: Early Retirement