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date	19/10/2021
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Maternity Allowance and Parental Pay
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 16 September 2021 to Question 45154 on Maternity Allowance and Parental Pay, if he will conduct a review of the accuracy and reliability of the data relating to the annual number of claimants of (a) statutory maternity pay, (b) statutory paternity pay and (c) statutory shared parental pay provided by HM Revenue & Customs.
tabling member constituency	East Renfrewshire
tabling member printed	Kirsten Oswald
uin	58919
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/10/2021 answer text <p>The information held by HMRC in relation to statutory payments is collected through an employer’s monthly PAYE returns. HMRC aim to limit the collection of information from employers to what is required for assuring PAYE. Information which could identify new parents is not necessary for HMRC’s PAYE collection processes. There are no plans review the data.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 27/10/2021 14:06:51 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	4413 label Biography information for Kirsten Oswald

1361366

registered interest
date	19/10/2021
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Maternity Allowance and Parental Pay
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many new claims for (a) statutory paternity pay, (b) statutory maternity pay and (c) maternity allowance were approved in each quarter of financial year 2020-21.
tabling member constituency	East Renfrewshire
tabling member printed	Kirsten Oswald
uin	58920
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/10/2021 answer text <p>The information is not held in the form requested. HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) does hold information on claimants of statutory maternity pay and statutory paternity pay, but this is not limited to new claims. Quarterly counts of claims would include claimants in each quarter in which they received the statutory payment. HMRC does not hold any information on payments of Maternity Allowance.</p><p> </p><p>The Department for Work and Pensions publishes statistics about benefits, including average caseloads for Statutory Maternity Pay and Maternity Allowance:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/benefit-expenditure-tables" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/benefit-expenditure-tables</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 22/10/2021 11:21:53 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	4413 label Biography information for Kirsten Oswald

1353848

registered interest
date	08/09/2021
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Maternity Allowance and Parental Pay
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many new parents received (a) statutory paternity pay, (b) statutory maternity pay and (c) maternity allowance in each financial year since 2010-11.
tabling member constituency	East Renfrewshire
tabling member printed	Kirsten Oswald
uin	45154
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/09/2021 answer text <p>The information is not held in the form requested. HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) do hold information on claimants of statutory parental payments, but this is not limited to new parents and will include claimants in each year in which they received statutory payments.</p><p> </p><p>The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) publish statistics about benefits, including Statutory Maternity Pay and Maternity Allowance:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/benefit-expenditure-tables" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/benefit-expenditure-tables</a>.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 16/09/2021 13:58:27 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4413 label Biography information for Kirsten Oswald