Self-employed: Parental Leave

(asked on 16th October 2017) - View Source

Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what recent estimate he has made of the cost of removing the parental support inequality that exists for self-employed fathers who wish to take parental leave to care for a new-born child.


Answered by
Margot James Portrait
Margot James
This question was answered on 23rd October 2017

The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy has not estimated the cost of extending employee rights to parental leave to self-employed fathers.

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