Question follow-through · 25193
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Parental Leave
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, 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 Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 21 Jan 2025
- Target answer date
- 23 Jan 2025
- Answer
- 27 Mar 2025 · 65 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
- Taxation (Energy and Vehicles) Bill Committee: New Clause 5 · 1 Jul 2026
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Recorded timeline
21 Jan 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, 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.
27 Mar 2025
Answer published
No. The Civil Service Management Code sets out that, ‘Departments and agencies may only grant shared parental leave in accordance with the statutory requirements governing eligibility for this category of leave.’ However, some staff could qualify for stat...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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