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Written Question
Parental Pay
Wednesday 4th December 2024

Asked by: Max Wilkinson (Liberal Democrat - Cheltenham)

Question to the Department for Business and Trade:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, how many couples claimed shared parental pay in each of the last five years.

Answered by Justin Madders - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade)

Information provided by employers to HMRC show the number of individuals in receipt of Statutory Shared Parental Pay (ShPP). This data provides a broad indication of SPL take-up but does not include anyone taking unpaid Shared Parental Leave.

Table 1: Individuals in receipt of ShPP by gender, 2019/20 to 2023/24 (the latest year for which full year data is available)

Year (April to March)

No. of Individuals in receipt of ShPP

Women

Men

Total

2019-20

2,900

10,200

13,000

2020-21

2,600

8,600

11,200

2021-22

3,200

9,800

13,000

2022-23

4,100

10,200

14,200

2023-24

6,600

10,600

17,200

  1. Data is collected using HMRC Real Time Information (RTI) and is subject to revision.
  2. Figures are rounded to the nearest hundred.
  3. Figures are based on the total number of individuals in a given year, irrespective of when the payment first started. Some individuals will be counted across two years.