Question follow-through · 7905
Department for Transport: Paternity Leave
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the average length of paternity leave taken by staff in her Department was in each of the last three years.
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- Answering body
- Department for Transport
- Tabled
- 8 Oct 2024
- Target answer date
- 10 Oct 2024
- Answer
- 14 Oct 2024 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
8 Oct 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the average length of paternity leave taken by staff in her Department was in each of the last three years.
10 Oct 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
14 Oct 2024
Answer published
Below is the average length of paternity leave, in working days, for each of the last 3 calendar years.Calendar YearWorking days20219.8320229.5020239.39
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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