Question follow-through · 77947

Parental Leave

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if he will make it his policy to adopt the recommendations of the Women and Equalities Committee's Sixth Report of Session 2024-25 entitled Equality at work: Paternity and shared parental leave, HC 502

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Answering body: Department for Business and Trade
Tabled: 16 Sept 2025
Target answer date: 14 Oct 2025
Answer: 14 Oct 2025 · 28 calendar days after tabling

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16 Sept 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if he will make it his policy to adopt the recommendations of the Women and Equalities Committee's Sixth Report of Session 2024-25 entitled Equality at work: Paternity and shared parental leave, HC 502
14 Oct 2025
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14 Oct 2025
Answer published
The Government thanks the committee for its careful consideration of Shared Parental Leave and Paternity Leave and has responded in full to the report. We recognise that more can be done to ensure working families are better supported. That is why on 1 Ju...

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