Paternity Leave
The question
To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of trends in the length of paternity leave taken by men on women.
Answered by Anneliese Dodds
It is really important that parents are able to spend sufficient time with their children without it negatively affecting their careers.
The Parental Rights Survey found that 70% of employee fathers took Paternity Leave.
More work needs to be done to support working parents, and we have committed to a review of the parental leave system. Work is underway planning its delivery.
The Employment Rights Bill will make Parental and Paternity Leave ‘day one’ rights, bringing 1.5 million parents into scope for Parental Leave, and 32,300 into scope for Paternity Leave.
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