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Department for Education: Paternity Leave

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department offers paternity leave to its staff from their first working day.

answeredDepartment for Education

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Answering body
Department for Education
Tabled
21 Jan 2025
Target answer date
23 Jan 2025
Answer
31 Jan 2025 · 10 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 21 Jan 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department offers paternity leave to its staff from their first working day.

  2. 23 Jan 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 31 Jan 2025

    Answer published

    Employees must have at least 26 continuous weeks employment in the Civil Service up to any day in the ‘qualifying week’ to be eligible for paternity leave. The ‘qualifying week’ is the fifteenth week before the baby is due.As with any changes to employmen...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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