Maternity Leave
The question
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will provide a breakdown of statutory maternity leave claims by income decile of the recipient for each of the last three years.
Answered by Dan Tomlinson
The table below shows the number of claimants of Statutory Maternity Pay, by recipient’s income decile, where income deciles have been calculated across the whole Real Time Information (RTI) population for each given tax year.
Income Decile | ||||||||||
Date | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 |
Total 2022-23 | 2,000 | 5,000 | 36,000 | 68,000 | 89,000 | 93,000 | 91,000 | 92,000 | 85,000 | 66,000 |
Total 2023-24 | 2,000 | 5,000 | 36,000 | 62,000 | 88,000 | 92,000 | 91,000 | 94,000 | 84,000 | 68,000 |
Total 2024-25 | 2,000 | 6,000 | 38,000 | 63,000 | 87,000 | 92,000 | 91,000 | 94,000 | 86,000 | 71,000 |
Notes:
1) Data collected using HMRC Real Time Information (RTI) and extracted in August 2025. RTI is subject to revision or updates.
2) Claim numbers have been rounded to nearest 1000.
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