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Department for Energy Security and Net Zero: Sick Leave

Asked by Neil O'BrienConservativeDepartment for Energy Security and Net ZeroTabled Answered 16 December 2025UIN 97899

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what the average number of working days lost to sickness absence per full-time equivalent member of staff was in (a) the Department and (b) its executive agencies in the last year; and how ma

Answered by Michael Shanks

The current AWDL for the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero is 3.8. The department does not have any Arms length’s bodies that are requested to submit AWDL figures. The requested data is not held centrally in a reportable format.

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