Written questions

Department for Education: Parental Leave

Commons · Question 25191 · Tabled 21 Jan 2025 · Department for Education · Official record

Answered 6 Feb 2025

Question

Asked by Dame Harriett Baldwin

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether their Department offers its staff shared parental leave from their first working day.

Answer

Answered by Janet Daby, 6 Feb 2025

To qualify for shared parental leave, an employee must have been in continuous employment with the Civil Service for 26 weeks up to and including the fifteenth week before the week in which their baby is due to be born.As with any changes to employment le...