Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many total working days were staff absent due to work-related stress in (a) her Department, (b) the Environment Agency and (c) Natural England in each year from 2010 to 2023.

Absence specifically attributed to work-related stress is not currently recorded via HR sickness absence systems. Work-related stress cases – with or without any absence from work – are encouraged to be reported via work-related injury, ill-health and incident reporting procedures, as a health and safety incident, like any other work-related harm.