Question follow-through · 76026
Paternity Leave: Self-employed
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what assessment his Department has made of the adequacy of statutory paternity leave entitlements for self-employed parents.
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- Answering body
- Department for Business and Trade
- Tabled
- 9 Sept 2025
- Target answer date
- 11 Sept 2025
- Answer
- 17 Sept 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
9 Sept 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what assessment his Department has made of the adequacy of statutory paternity leave entitlements for self-employed parents.
11 Sept 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
17 Sept 2025
Answer published
Self-employed parents are not currently eligible for statutory paternity leave or pay. On 1 July the Government launched the Parental Leave and Pay Review. The Review will consider all existing and upcoming parental leave entitlements, including whether s...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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