Question follow-through · 25196
Department for Work and Pensions: Parental Leave
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether their Department offers its staff shared parental leave from their first working day.
About this written question
A written question asks a government minister for information in writing. Parliament publishes the question and any answer.
- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- 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 Work and Pensions, 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.
28 Jan 2025
Answer published
The Department for Work and Pensions applies the statutory eligibility criteria for shared parental leave, which includes the parent or parents we employ working for at least 26 weeks up to a relevant date. DWP does not offer its staff shared parental lea...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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