Question follow-through · 33185
Department for Transport: Kinship Care
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether her Department offers (a) paid time off work and (b) other support to employees who become kinship carers.
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- Answering body
- Department for Transport
- Tabled
- 24 Feb 2025
- Target answer date
- 26 Feb 2025
- Answer
- 4 Mar 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
24 Feb 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether her Department offers (a) paid time off work and (b) other support to employees who become kinship carers.
26 Feb 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
4 Mar 2025
Answer published
The Department for Transport does not currently offer paid time off or support specifically for kinship carers. This is something that the department along with other government bodies is reviewing.The department does offer support including paid and unpa...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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