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Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Parental Leave |
| Question ID: |
1757281 |
| UIN: |
25193 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-01-21 |
| Asking Member ID: |
4107 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Dame Harriett Baldwin
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| Asking Member handle: |
hbaldwin
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
@hbaldwin
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether their Department offers its staff shared parental leave from their first working day. |
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false |
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| Date answered: |
2025-03-27 |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
4382 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Daniel Zeichner
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| Answering Member handle: |
danielzeichner
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@danielzeichner
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| Answer text: |
No. The Civil Service Management Code sets out that, ‘Departments and agencies may only grant shared parental leave in accordance with the statutory requirements governing eligibility for this category of leave.’ However, some staff could qualify for stat... |
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| Answering body ID: |
13 |
| Answering body name: |
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs |
| Tweeted: |
true |