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1659078

	registered interest
	date	07/09/2023
	answering body	Department for Business and Trade
	answering dept id	214
	answering dept short name	Business and Trade
	answering dept sort name	Business and Trade
	hansard heading	Paternity Pay
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether she has made a recent assessment of the potential merits of increasing the length of time for which paternity pay is awarded from two to four weeks.
	tabling member constituency	Glasgow North West
	tabling member printed	Carol Monaghan
	uin	198359
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/09/2023 answer text <p>We recently published our response to the consultation on parental leave and pay. This detailed our planned reforms to make Paternity Leave and Pay more flexible and easier to take, including increasing the period of time within which leave can be taken and allowing it to be taken in non-consecutive blocks. In line with other parental pay entitlements, Paternity Pay is paid at the statutory rate.</p><p>The standard rate of Statutory Paternity Pay and Statutory Maternity Pay is reviewed annually and from April 2023, it increased by September's CPI figure of 10.1 per cent to £172.48.</p> answering member constituency Thirsk and Malton answering member printed Kevin Hollinrake grouped question UIN 198360 198363 question first answered 14/09/2023 15:38:19 answering member 4474 label Biography information for Kevin Hollinrake
	tabling member	4443 label Biography information for Carol Monaghan

1659082

	registered interest
	date	07/09/2023
	answering body	Department for Business and Trade
	answering dept id	214
	answering dept short name	Business and Trade
	answering dept sort name	Business and Trade
	hansard heading	Paternity Pay
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of increasing (a) the length of time for which paternity pay is awarded and (b) the level of paternity pay when the mother is not working.
	tabling member constituency	Glasgow North West
	tabling member printed	Carol Monaghan
	uin	198363
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/09/2023 answer text <p>We recently published our response to the consultation on parental leave and pay. This detailed our planned reforms to make Paternity Leave and Pay more flexible and easier to take, including increasing the period of time within which leave can be taken and allowing it to be taken in non-consecutive blocks. In line with other parental pay entitlements, Paternity Pay is paid at the statutory rate.</p><p>The standard rate of Statutory Paternity Pay and Statutory Maternity Pay is reviewed annually and from April 2023, it increased by September's CPI figure of 10.1 per cent to £172.48.</p> answering member constituency Thirsk and Malton answering member printed Kevin Hollinrake grouped question UIN 198359 198360 question first answered 14/09/2023 15:38:19 answering member 4474 label Biography information for Kevin Hollinrake
	tabling member	4443 label Biography information for Carol Monaghan