Question follow-through · 25362
Treasury: Paternity Leave
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether her Department offers paternity leave to its staff from their first working day.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Treasury
- 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 Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether her 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.
29 Jan 2025
Answer published
HMT staff must have worked continuously for the Civil Service for at least 26 weeks to be eligible for paternity leave. The Employment Rights Bill will remove this requirement and staff will be entitled to paternity leave from their first working day. HMT...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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