Question follow-through · 16297
Parental Pay
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, how many couples claimed shared parental pay in each of the last five years.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Business and Trade
- Tabled
- 26 Nov 2024
- Target answer date
- 28 Nov 2024
- Answer
- 4 Dec 2024 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
26 Nov 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, how many couples claimed shared parental pay in each of the last five years.
28 Nov 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
4 Dec 2024
Answer published
Information provided by employers to HMRC show the number of individuals in receipt of Statutory Shared Parental Pay (ShPP). This data provides a broad indication of SPL take-up but does not include anyone taking unpaid Shared Parental Leave. Table 1: Ind...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
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