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Public Health: Statutory Sick Pay

Question for Department of Health and Social Care

UIN 902448, tabled on 17 April 2024

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent discussions she has had with the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions on the potential impact of the level of statutory sick pay on public health.

Answered on

24 April 2024

The government keeps Statutory Sick Pay policy under review.

I am clear that good work is good for you and our focus is on how we can keep people in work or get them back to work more quickly. That is why we are reforming the fit note process.

This is alongside our investment in Universal Support and Access to Work focussed on helping disabled people and those with health conditions return to and remain in work.

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