Question follow-through · 25359
Ministry of Justice: Paternity Leave
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether her Department offers paternity leave to its staff from their first working day.
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Justice
- Tabled
- 21 Jan 2025
- Target answer date
- 23 Jan 2025
- Answer
- 28 Jan 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
21 Jan 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, 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.
28 Jan 2025
Answer published
The Ministry of Justice does not offer employees paternity leave from their first day of employment. The Department’s policy on paternity leave aligns with statutory entitlements. To qualify for paternity leave, employees must have worked continuously for...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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