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<p>The Government is committed to supporting working parents. In 2015, we introduced
Shared Parental Leave and Pay which gives eligible parents much more flexibility and
choice in how they share care for their new child between them in the first year.
The scheme is in addition to the Government’s 2-week Paternity Leave and Pay policy
and gives fathers and partners access to up to 50 weeks of leave and 37 weeks of pay.</p><p>
</p><p>Take-up of Shared Parental Leave and Pay has been broadly in line with our
initial estimates, which anticipated that a cultural change like this would take time
to bed-in.</p><p> </p><p>Table 1 below shows the number of individuals in receipt
of Statutory Paternity Pay and Statutory Shared Parental Pay based on the month that
the claim was first made.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p><strong>Table 1: Individuals in receipt
of Statutory Paternity Pay and Statutory Shared Parental Pay based on the month that
the claim was first made by quarter, 2015/16 to 2019/20</strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>
</p></td><td><p>Statutory Paternity Pay (month first claimed)</p></td><td><p>Statutory
Shared Parental Pay (month first claimed)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Q1 15/16</p></td><td><p>51,900</p></td><td><p>1,200</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Q2
15/16</p></td><td><p>55,000</p></td><td><p>1,400</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Q3 15/16</p></td><td><p>52,200</p></td><td><p>1,500</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Q4
15/16</p></td><td><p>54,200</p></td><td><p>1,900</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Q1 16/17</p></td><td><p>55,100</p></td><td><p>2,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Q2
16/17</p></td><td><p>56,200</p></td><td><p>2,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Q3 16/17</p></td><td><p>52,900</p></td><td><p>1,700</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Q4
16/17</p></td><td><p>54,000</p></td><td><p>2,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Q1 17/18</p></td><td><p>51,400</p></td><td><p>2,100</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Q2
17/18</p></td><td><p>55,500</p></td><td><p>2,200</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Q3 17/18</p></td><td><p>52,600</p></td><td><p>1,900</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Q4
17/18</p></td><td><p>51,200</p></td><td><p>1,900</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Q1 18/19</p></td><td><p>48,300</p></td><td><p>2,300</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Q2
18/19</p></td><td><p>50,300</p></td><td><p>2,600</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Q3 18/19</p></td><td><p>47,600</p></td><td><p>2,200</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Q4
18/19</p></td><td><p>54,000</p></td><td><p>2,400</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Q1 19/20</p></td><td><p>50,800</p></td><td><p>2,900</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Q2
19/20</p></td><td><p>53,100</p></td><td><p>3,500</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Q3 19/20</p></td><td><p>50,400</p></td><td><p>2,400</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>
</p><ol><li>Data collected uses HMRC Real Time Information (RTI) and was extracted
in March 2020. RTI is subject to revision or updates.</li><li>Figures have been rounded
to the nearest hundred.</li><li>For the 2015-16 tax year, those receiving Additional
Statutory Paternity Pay (ASPP) for children born before 6 April 2015 cannot be distinguished
from those claiming ShPP within RTI data.</li></ol><p>Data based on the month first
claimed means that an individual who first claims statutory payment in a given month
(i.e. had not claimed it in the previous month) and continues receiving statutory
pay for multiple months would only be counted in the first month.</p>
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