Question follow-through · 901935
Paternity Leave
To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of trends in the length of paternity leave taken by men on women.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Women and Equalities
- Tabled
- 12 Dec 2024
- Target answer date
- 18 Dec 2024
- Answer
- 18 Dec 2024 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
12 Dec 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of trends in the length of paternity leave taken by men on women.
18 Dec 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
18 Dec 2024
Answer published
It is really important that parents are able to spend sufficient time with their children without it negatively affecting their careers.The Parental Rights Survey found that 70% of employee fathers took Paternity Leave.More work needs to be done to suppor...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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