Question follow-through · 16618
Paternity Pay
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, how many people claimed statutory paternity pay in each of the last five years.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Business and Trade
- Tabled
- 27 Nov 2024
- Target answer date
- 3 Dec 2024
- Answer
- 3 Dec 2024 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
27 Nov 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, how many people claimed statutory paternity pay in each of the last five years.
3 Dec 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
3 Dec 2024
Answer published
Information provided by employers to HMRC show the number of individuals in receipt of Statutory Paternity Pay (SPP). This data provides a broad indication of Paternity Leave take-up but does not include those that take unpaid paternity leave. The Parenta...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
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