| Heading: |
Department for Education: Paternity Leave |
| Question ID: |
1757258 |
| UIN: |
25348 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-01-21 |
| Asking Member ID: |
4874 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Andrew Griffith
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| Asking Member handle: |
griffitha
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
@griffitha
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department offers paternity leave to its staff from their first working day. |
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false |
| Date of holding answer: |
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| Date answered: |
2025-01-31 |
| Date answer corrected: |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
4698 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Janet Daby
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| Answering Member handle: |
JanetDaby
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@JanetDaby
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| Answer text: |
Employees must have at least 26 continuous weeks employment in the Civil Service up to any day in the ‘qualifying week’ to be eligible for paternity leave. The ‘qualifying week’ is the fifteenth week before the baby is due.As with any changes to employmen... |
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| Answering body ID: |
60 |
| Answering body name: |
Department for Education |
| Tweeted: |
true |