Question follow-through · 25188

Attorney General's Office: Parental Leave

To ask the Solicitor General, whether her Department offers its staff shared parental leave from their first working day.

answeredAttorney General

About this written question

A written question asks a government minister for information in writing. Parliament publishes the question and any answer.

Answering body
Attorney General
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

  1. 21 Jan 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Solicitor General, whether her Department offers its staff shared parental leave from their first working day.

  2. 23 Jan 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 28 Jan 2025

    Answer published

    The Attorney General’s Office does not offer its staff shared parental leave from their first working day. The Civil Service Management Code states that, ‘Departments and agencies may only grant shared parental leave in accordance with the statutory requi...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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