questionText: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what the cost to the public purse was of (a) Statutory Paternity Leave, (b) Shared Parental Leave and (c) Statutory Maternity Leave in each region in each of the last five years.
answerText: Information provided by employers to HMRC shows that the total value of payments made to individuals in receipt of Statutory Paternity Pay, Statutory Shared Parental Pay and Statutory Maternity Pay between 2019/20 and 2023/24 (the latest year for which fu...
heading: Parental Leave: Costs