The information requested falls under the remit of the UK Statistics Authority.

A response to the Parliamentary Question of 14th July is attached.

Transport in London is devolved to the Mayor and Transport for London, as such the Government has made no assessment of the number of working days lost across the broader London commuter base as a result of industrial action by members of the National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers on the London Underground since 1 April 2026.

The Government has made no assessment of the total direct cost to the United Kingdom economy of industrial action on the London Underground since 1 April 2026 due to London Transport being devolved.

Each train operating company currently records this information in a different way – some by days lost and some by percentage absence rate. The figures below have been collated by DFT Operator. Figures cover periods in public ownership only.

Table 1:

Absences by days lost, presented by Rail Period

(Northern, TransPennine Trains, South Western Railway)

Table 2:

Absences by days lost, presented by calendar month

(Southeastern)

Table 3:

Absences by percentage, presented by Rail Period

(LNER, c2c, Greater Anglia, West Midlands Trains)

No recent estimate has been made on the average number of lost work days for public sector employees, private sector employees, or self-employed patients waiting for pre-booked National Health Service operations and procedures.

We recognise the importance of supporting patients to return to work where they can. That is why the Further Faster 20 (FF20) initiative was announced in September 2024, to deploy expert advice to NHS trusts in areas with the highest levels of economic inactivity to get patients treated faster. This programme is part of the plans to reduce the number of people that are unable to work due to long-term sickness, which is at its highest level since the 1990s. FF20 co-exists alongside other interventions, including reducing demand, which are positively impacting the waiting list, and it is challenging to disentangle the impact of one from the other.

The Government is committed to addressing health-related economic inactivity, which is crucial for enhancing public health, strengthening communities, and boosting the economy. By reducing economic inactivity, we can also alleviate demand on the NHS, thereby improving its performance. Analysis conducted by NHS England and the Office of National Statistics demonstrates there could be multi-billion-pound benefits in achieving the Government’s Plan for Change’s ambition to meet the referral-to-treatment standard for elective procedures.

This Government recognises that tradespeople are often targeted by criminals who seek to steal tools. We also recognise the deeply damaging impact on victims who rely on their tools to earn a living.

Whilst we do not have an official estimate of the costs of tool theft, recent research commissioned by industry indicated that 9% of victims in their cohort lost over three days of work as a result.

In the Government’s Small Business Plan, published on 31 July, we committed to working alongside industry and small business representatives to tackle the problem of tool theft. We are partnering with tradespeople’s representatives, policing and other partners, including retailers and manufacturers, to co-design actions Government and industry can take to encourage theft prevention.

A key part of making acquisitive crime less attractive to criminals is making stolen goods harder to sell on. That is why we work closely with policing and academic leads to examine what more can be done to tackle the disposal markets for stolen goods and reduce the profit from acquisitive crime.

We are providing £2m funding for the National Business Crime Centre over the next three financial years to help tackle the crimes most affecting businesses today, including tackling the sale of stolen goods.

The Chancellor has announced a real terms increase in police spending power over the next three years and more detail on force funding allocations for 2026-27 will be set out at the forthcoming police funding settlement.

The 2025-26 settlement represents a 6.4% cash increase and a 3.9% real terms increase in funding.

The Police Funding Settlement of £200 million will support the first steps of delivering 13,000 more neighbourhood personnel.

The information requested falls under the remit of the UK Statistics Authority.

A response to the Hon. Member’s parliamentary question of 30/04/24 is attached.

The information requested falls under the remit of the UK Statistics Authority.

A response to the Hon. Member’s parliamentary question of 30/04/24 is attached.

NHS England publishes monthly data on sickness absence of National Health Service staff drawn from the NHS Electronic Staff Record system. This includes high level categories of reason for absence. It is not possible from this data to identify days lost due to stress, but data is collected and reported for the broader category of ‘stress, anxiety, depression or other psychiatric illnesses’. The data shows that between 1 July 2022 and 30 June 2023, there were 6,110,681 full time equivalent (FTE) days lost to sickness absence which fall in that broader category.

FTE days lost may include non-working days as sickness absence is recorded from the day someone first reports sick until they return to work. Information on the days people were scheduled to work is not held centrally, and so periods may include non-working days. It should also be noted that some trusts provide very few reasons for sickness absence, so figures will be incomplete but the best available.

NHS England publishes monthly data on sickness absence of National Health Service staff draw from the NHS Electronic Staff Record (ESR) system. This includes high level categories of reason for absence. However, this is not detailed enough to see reasons for absence by pay bands. NHS England has therefore created a bespoke report including pay band information, which is consistent with the published data, for the response to this question.

A table is attached which shows how many full-time equivalent working days were available and lost for nurses and health visitors by Agenda for Change pay band and by reason in NHS trusts and other core organisations in England for the period between July 2022 to June 2023. Due to the way they are recorded on ESR, days lost may include non-working days as the system does not record planned or scheduled working days. It should also be noted that some trusts provide very few reasons for sickness absence, so figures will be incomplete but the best available. In a small number of cases, some registered nurses are coded below the recognised Band 5 entry level. This could be due to different factors such as data quality errors often observed within administrative datasets; for example, some health care assistants may be coded as nurses

The department does not conduct research on the scale and impact of workplace bullying, including online.

Acas has published independent research which estimates the cost of workplace conflict more broadly. This measured conflicts at various stages and goes further than just bullying and harassment, including costs of mediation, absences and reduced productivity. This is available at: https://www.acas.org.uk/estimating-the-costs-of-workplace-conflict-report.

I refer the honourable Member to the answer I gave on Wednesday 30 November to Question 96613.

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On the question relating to 'other reasons' this could cover a range of situations, would require clarification but would probably only be obtained by disproportionate effort.

The government’s Living with Covid strategy, published on 21 February, outlined that the NHS will continue work to better understand Covid-19 and the long-term health impacts it may have, supported by £50 million in research funding. The Therapeutics Taskforce will also continue to support the eight national priority clinical trial platforms run by the National Institute for Health Research, focused on prevention, novel treatments, and treatments for Long COVID.

HM Treasury will continue to monitor Covid impacts, such as workforce absences, on the economy as we move into the next phase of Living with Covid. HM Treasury does not prepare formal economic forecasts, including GDP, for the UK economy, which are the responsibility of the independent Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR).

The Living with Covid strategy can be found at the following website: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/covid-19-response-living-with-covid-19