Question follow-through · 25195
Department for Transport: Parental Leave
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, 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 Transport
- 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 Transport, 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
The Department for Transport follows the legislation on Shared Parental Leave, which requires employees to have at least 26 weeks’ qualifying service to be entitled to such leave. The Department exceeds statutory requirements by providing enhanced pay for...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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