Question follow-through · 25197

Department of Health and Social Care: Parental Leave

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether their Department offers its staff shared parental leave from their first working day.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body: Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled: 21 Jan 2025
Target answer date: 23 Jan 2025
Answer: 27 Jan 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling

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Votes on this topic

Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: Second Reading · 11 Sept 2026
Health Bill: Report Stage: Amendment 1 · 8 Sept 2026
Health Bill: Report Stage: New Clause 143 · 8 Sept 2026

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Recorded timeline

21 Jan 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, 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 Jan 2025
Answer published
Shared parental leave is not offered as standard from the first working day for the Department’s employees. The Civil Service Management Code states that shared parental leave may only be granted in accordance with statutory requirements governing eligibi...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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