Unemployment: Long Covid
(asked on 11th March 2025) - View Source
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the cost to the economy per year of people unable to work due to long Covid.
This question was answered on 25th March 2025
The Department does not have an estimate of the cost to the economy per year of people unable to work due to long Covid. Recent government-funded research from the National Institute for Health and Care Research estimated the economic impact on the UK at the time of the study (March 2023) as £5.7 billion from those with long COVID unable to work as before, based on the total duration of long COVID symptoms.