PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Parental Pay: Adoption (14 January 2016)

Question Asked

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many claims for statutory shared parental pay have been linked to adoption leave since 1 April 2015.

Asked by:
Jonathan Reynolds (Labour)

Answer


The Government does not yet have any information on the take up of Statutory Shared Parental Pay. Information for the 2015-16 tax year will be available from May 2016, although it will also include claims for Additional Statutory Paternity Pay. Information is not held on the number of claims for Statutory Shared Parental Pay that are linked to adoption leave.



Answered by:
Nick Boles (Independent)
28 January 2016

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