Question follow-through · 25361
Scotland Office: Paternity Leave
To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, whether his Department offers paternity leave to its staff from their first working day.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Scotland Office
- 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 Scotland, whether his Department offers paternity leave to its staff 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 Scotland Office does not employ staff directly. All staff that join do so on an assignment, loan or secondment from other Government bodies, principally the Scottish Government and the Ministry of Justice, who remain the employers and determine the te...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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