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Cabinet Office: Sick Leave

Asked by Blake StephensonConservativeCabinet OfficeTabled Answered 8 July 2025UIN 64201

The question

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many (a) unauthorised and (b) sickness absences there were in the civil service in each of the last five years.

Answered by Georgia Gould

Sickness absence data for the Civil Service is published annually, and is available here: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/sickness-absence.

Individual departments are responsible for managing their workforces, including any instances of unauthorised absence. This information is not held centrally by the Cabinet Office.

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