Question follow-through · 7897
Attorney General's Office: Paternity Leave
To ask the Solicitor General, what the average length of paternity leave taken by staff in (a) her Department and (b) the Crown Prosecution Service was in each of the last three years.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Attorney General
- Tabled
- 8 Oct 2024
- Target answer date
- 15 Oct 2024
- Answer
- 17 Oct 2024 · 9 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
8 Oct 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Solicitor General, what the average length of paternity leave taken by staff in (a) her Department and (b) the Crown Prosecution Service was in each of the last three years.
15 Oct 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
17 Oct 2024
Answer published
Our records show that between 2021 and October 2024, Attorney General’s Office and Crown Prosecution Service employees have taken paternity leave for the birth or adoption of a child.The average working days taken (AWDT) is shown in the table below.YearAt...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
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