questionText: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether she has made an estimate of the number of people on long-term sick leave as of 7 February 2024.
answerText: The Department does not hold data on individuals who are currently taking a long-term sickness absence. However, the Department’s 2019 ‘Health in the Workplace’ publication showed that in the previous 12 months, 1.4m working aged people (aged 16-64) in th...
heading: Sick Leave