Written Question·Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade ·UIN 28827

Tabled: 10 September 2026
Named Day

Question

Ian Byrne

LabourLiverpool West Derby

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade, if he will make it his policy to (a) increase the statutory entitlement to paternity leave to at least six weeks and (b) to pay that leave at 90 percent of average weekly earnings.