Question follow-through · 6241
Kinship Care: Leave
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of providing the same rights to leave for kinship carers as are are in place for adoption leave.
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- Answering body
- Department for Business and Trade
- Tabled
- 4 Oct 2024
- Target answer date
- 8 Oct 2024
- Answer
- 14 Oct 2024 · 10 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
4 Oct 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of providing the same rights to leave for kinship carers as are are in place for adoption leave.
8 Oct 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
14 Oct 2024
Answer published
The Government greatly values kinship carers who come forward to care for children who cannot live with their parents. The Government has committed in the Plan to Make Work Pay to review the system of parental leave to ensure that it better supports worki...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Hospitality Sector Council: Membership
15 Oct 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what the selection criteria for membership to the Hospitality Sector Council is.
Flexible Working: Women
15 Oct 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps the Government is taking to support flexible working by women.
Toys and Games: Sales
8 Dec 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what data he holds on how many packs of educational colours rainbow sand was sold before it was no longer available.
Toys and Games: Sales
8 Dec 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps he is taking to communicate concerns of potential harmful substances in Educational Colours Rainbow Sand.
Toys and Games: Sales
8 Dec 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether she has issued guidance to (a) schools and (b) educational establishments to make them aware of potential concerns with Colours Play Sand.
Minerals: Imports
20 Mar 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what analysis his Department has undertaken of the UK’s level of reliance on imported critical minerals essential for battery production, semiconductors and renewable energy technologies.
Minerals: Recycling
20 Mar 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps are being taken to develop domestic processing and recycling of critical minerals.
Manufacturing Industries
20 Mar 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps he is taking to help increase domestic manufacturing capacity in (a) grid components, (b) pharmaceuticals, (c) advanced materials and (d) other essential sectors.
Industry and Small Businesses: Supply Chains
20 Mar 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps he is taking to support (a) SMEs and (b) strategic industries in the context of reducing dependence on global supply chains.
Rutherford Health: Closures
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Growth Hubs
5 Jun 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that support offered by Growth Hubs is not only used in places of concentrated wealth.