Parental Leave: Broxtowe
Commons · Question 53692 · Tabled 20 May 2025 · Department for Business and Trade · Official record
Answered 29 May 2025
Question
Asked by Juliet Campbell
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps his Department is taking to help support (a) fathers and (b) partners take (i) paternity leave and (ii) unpaid parental leave in Broxtowe constituency.
Answer
Answered by Justin Madders, 29 May 2025
Through the Employment Rights Bill, the government will make Paternity Leave and Unpaid Parental Leave 'day one' rights. This will bring an extra 32,000 fathers and partners into scope of Paternity Leave and an extra 1.5 million parents into scope of Unpa...