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Parental Leave

Commons · Question 77947 · Tabled 16 Sep 2025 · Department for Business and Trade · Official record

Answered 14 Oct 2025

Question

Asked by Freddie van Mierlo

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

Answer

Answered by Kate Dearden, 14 Oct 2025

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...