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date	05/02/2020
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	Parental Leave
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, when she plans to publish the outcome of the Neonatal Leave and Pay consultation, which closed on 29 November 2019.
tabling member constituency	Leeds West
tabling member printed	Rachel Reeves
uin	12873
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/02/2020 answer text <p>This Government is determined to make Britain the best place in the world to work. As announced in the Queens’ Speech, we will be bringing forward an Employment Rights Bill to deliver the greatest reform of workers’ rights in over 20 years. This will include measures to allow parents of children who have been in neonatal care for a prolonged stay to take additional paid leave (subject to qualifying criteria).</p><p> </p><p>This will take forward the proposals which the Government consulted on from July to October last year. The consultation outlined our estimates of the cost of this policy to business and to the Exchequer. This covered a range of options for how many weeks leave and pay the entitlement would cover, as well as the impact of a qualifying ‘minimum stay’ in neonatal care. The consultation document is available at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/good-work-plan-proposals-to-support-families" target="_blank"><em>https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/good-work-plan-proposals-to-support-families</em></a> with provisional costings on p44. The Government will publish a full impact assessment when the Bill is introduced in Parliament.</p><p> </p><p>We look forward to setting out our plans soon with the publication of the Government Response.</p> answering member constituency Rochester and Strood answering member printed Kelly Tolhurst grouped question UIN 12874 12913 12914 question first answered 10/02/2020 17:50:00 answering member 4487 label Biography information for Kelly Tolhurst
tabling member	4031 label Biography information for Rachel Reeves

1176326

registered interest
date	05/02/2020
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	Parental Leave
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, when neonatal leave and pay will be available to parents with a baby receiving neonatal care.
tabling member constituency	Leeds West
tabling member printed	Rachel Reeves
uin	12874
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/02/2020 answer text <p>This Government is determined to make Britain the best place in the world to work. As announced in the Queens’ Speech, we will be bringing forward an Employment Rights Bill to deliver the greatest reform of workers’ rights in over 20 years. This will include measures to allow parents of children who have been in neonatal care for a prolonged stay to take additional paid leave (subject to qualifying criteria).</p><p> </p><p>This will take forward the proposals which the Government consulted on from July to October last year. The consultation outlined our estimates of the cost of this policy to business and to the Exchequer. This covered a range of options for how many weeks leave and pay the entitlement would cover, as well as the impact of a qualifying ‘minimum stay’ in neonatal care. The consultation document is available at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/good-work-plan-proposals-to-support-families" target="_blank"><em>https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/good-work-plan-proposals-to-support-families</em></a> with provisional costings on p44. The Government will publish a full impact assessment when the Bill is introduced in Parliament.</p><p> </p><p>We look forward to setting out our plans soon with the publication of the Government Response.</p> answering member constituency Rochester and Strood answering member printed Kelly Tolhurst grouped question UIN 12873 12913 12914 question first answered 10/02/2020 17:50:00 answering member 4487 label Biography information for Kelly Tolhurst
tabling member	4031 label Biography information for Rachel Reeves

1143098

registered interest
date	02/09/2019
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	Parental Leave
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps the Government is taking to ensure that the parental leave system supports men and women equally to take time out of the workplace to care for children.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle-under-Lyme
tabling member printed	Paul Farrelly
uin	284772
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/09/2019 answer text <p>The Shared Parental Leave &amp; Pay scheme was introduced in 2015. This scheme gives eligible working parents more choice and flexibility around which of them cares for their child in the first year and when they do this.</p><p> </p><p>We are currently consulting on high-level options for how we can better balance the gender division of the parental leave and pay system. Responses to the consultation will be considered alongside our evaluation of the Shared Parental Leave &amp; Pay scheme which is already underway.</p> answering member constituency Rochester and Strood answering member printed Kelly Tolhurst question first answered 09/09/2019 09:49:14 answering member 4487 label Biography information for Kelly Tolhurst
tabling member	1436 label Biography information for Paul Farrelly

1133174

registered interest
date	19/06/2019
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	Parental Leave
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, with reference to The Prime Minister's oral contribution of 28 November 2018, Official Report, column 246 and pursuant to the Answer of 18 June 2019 to Question 264462, on Parental Leave: Childbirth, whether the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy has informed her of his reasons for the key findings of the review of the provisions for parents of premature babies to not now be shared with interested parties.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow East
tabling member printed	David Linden
uin	266864
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/06/2019 answer text <p>The review of provisions for parents of premature babies was an internal review undertaken by officials of the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy to help them provide advice to Ministers. Advice to Ministers is not routinely shared outside of Government departments.</p><p> </p><p>As indicated in my response to Question <a href="https://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-question/Commons/2019-06-13/264462/" target="_blank">264462</a>, the findings of this review will help to inform the public consultation on options for further support for parents of premature, sick and multiple babies, which we will launch before the end of the Summer.</p><p> </p><p>We look forward to working with interested parties during the consultation process.</p> answering member constituency Rochester and Strood answering member printed Kelly Tolhurst question first answered 26/06/2019 11:52:44 answering member 4487 label Biography information for Kelly Tolhurst previous answer version 124897 answering member constituency Rochester and Strood answering member printed Kelly Tolhurst answering member 4487 label Biography information for Kelly Tolhurst
tabling member	4640 label Biography information for David Linden