Oral Question·Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
“What the eligibility criteria for the Community Ownership Fund are.”
Tabled: 27 February 2024Answered: 4 March 2024
Answering Minister
the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
Answer from Hansard
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Business and Trade (Justin Madders)
The parental rights survey 2019 found that 89% of employee mothers took maternity leave and 70% of employee fathers took paternity leave, but take-up of shared parental leave is much lower. In fact, it is disappointingly low, which is why we are committed to a review of the parental leave system. Work is under way to deliver on that, and I will provide an update in due course.