Written Question·Department for Business and Trade·UIN 4949
Adoption Leave
Tabled: 9 September 2024
Answered: 16 September 2024
Question
Claire Hazelgrove
Labour — Filton and Bradley Stoke
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of (a) extending adoption leave to more than one parent and (b) introducing the equivalent of paternity leave for adoptive parents.
Answer
Justin MaddersEmployed adoptive parents have broadly the same rights and protections as birth parents. Paternity Leave and Pay already enables employed fathers and partners (including same sex partners) to take up to two weeks leave during the first year following thei...
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