PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Parental Pay: Adoption (15 November 2017)
Question Asked
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the cost of Statutory Adoption Pay has been to the public purse in each of the last five years.
Asked by:
Ed Davey (Liberal Democrat)
Asked by:
Ed Davey (Liberal Democrat)
Answer
The value in £m of Statutory Adoption Pay (SAP) received by employees in each of the last five years can be found in the table below:
Tax year | Value (£m) of SAP received by employees |
2013-14 | 16.4 |
2014-15 | 16.8 |
2015-16 | 23.5 |
2016-17 | 23.8 |
2017-18 (April-September 2017 inclusive) | 11.4 |
Notes:
2014-15 figures onwards from HMRC Real Time Information
2013-14 figures estimated from a 10% sample of annual P14 returns
2017-18 figures not yet complete
Answered by:
Mel Stride (Conservative)
24 November 2017
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