Question follow-through · 25348
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.
About this written question
A written question asks a government minister for information in writing. Parliament publishes the question and any answer.
- 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
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.
23 Jan 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
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...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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