Question follow-through · 25190
Department for Culture, Media and Sport: Parental Leave
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether their Department offers its staff shared parental leave from their first working day.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Culture, Media and Sport
- Tabled
- 21 Jan 2025
- Target answer date
- 23 Jan 2025
- Answer
- 29 Jan 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
21 Jan 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether their Department offers its staff shared parental leave from their first working day.
23 Jan 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
29 Jan 2025
Answer published
DCMS offers shared parental leave in line with legislation: to access statutory shared parental leave and pay, both parents must have worked for their employer for at least 26 weeks up to the 15th week before their baby is due. However, some staff could q...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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Trade Agreements: USA
19 Jun 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether she has made an assessment of the potential impact of the UK-US trade deal on the (a) culture, (b) media and (c) sport sectors.