Question follow-through · 59624
Adoption: Leave
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of equalising paid time off entitlements for both adopters.
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- Answering body
- Department for Business and Trade
- Tabled
- 12 Jun 2025
- Target answer date
- 16 Jun 2025
- Answer
- 20 Jun 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
12 Jun 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of equalising paid time off entitlements for both adopters.
16 Jun 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
20 Jun 2025
Answer published
In the Plan to Make Work Pay the government committed to a Review of the parental leave system. The Review will provide us with an opportunity to consider the current framework of parental leave entitlements and how they should operate as a holistic syste...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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