Department for Energy Security and Net Zero: Sick Leave

(asked on 8th December 2025) - View Source

Question to the Department for Energy Security & Net Zero:

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 many formal performance warnings were issued to staff whose absence exceeded departmental triggers.


Answered by
Michael Shanks Portrait
Michael Shanks
Minister of State (Department for Energy Security and Net Zero)
This question was answered on 16th December 2025

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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