Sick Leave: Dental Health
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent estimate he has made of the number of working days lost every year in England as a result of dental problems.
Answered by Dame Diana Johnson
Data specifically on the number of working days lost in England as a result of dental problems is not held. Data on the number of working days lost to sickness absence as a result of Eye/ear/nose/mouth/dental problems in the UK is available in the following publication: Sickness absence in the UK labour market - Office for National Statistics.
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