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<p>The Department does not hold data on individuals who are currently taking a long-term
sickness absence.</p><p> </p><p>However, the Department’s 2019 ‘Health in the Workplace’
publication showed that in the previous 12 months, 1.4m working aged people (aged
16-64) in the UK had a total of 1.8m spells of long term (lasting 4 weeks or more)
sickness absences. This analysis uses the cross-sectional Annual Population Survey
(APS) January 2018 – December 2018.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>The publication
can be found <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/5d2c67de40f0b64a82516308/health-in-the-workplace-statistics.pdf"
target="_blank">here.</a></p>
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