Question follow-through · 25363

Wales Office: Paternity Leave

To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, whether her Department offers paternity leave to its staff from their first working day.

answeredWales Office

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Answering body
Wales Office
Tabled
21 Jan 2025
Target answer date
23 Jan 2025
Answer
27 Jan 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 21 Jan 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, whether her Department offers paternity leave to its staff from their first working day.

  2. 23 Jan 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 27 Jan 2025

    Answer published

    My Department is not an employer in its own right and the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) provides the Wales Office with employment services and HR policies, such as Paternity Leave. Some staff could qualify for statutory paternity leave on their first day of s...

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