Parental Pay: Adoption

(asked on 15th November 2017) - View Source
Questioner
Ed Davey Portrait
Ed Davey
(Liberal Democrat - Kingston and Surbiton)

Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the cost of Statutory Adoption Pay has been to the public purse in each of the last five years.

Answered by
Mel Stride Portrait
Mel Stride
Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
This question was answered on 24th November 2017

The value in £m of Statutory Adoption Pay (SAP) received by employees in each of the last five years can be found in the table below:

Tax year

Value (£m) of SAP received by employees

2013-14

16.4

2014-15

16.8

2015-16

23.5

2016-17

23.8

2017-18 (April-September 2017 inclusive)

11.4

Notes:

  1. 2014-15 figures onwards from HMRC Real Time Information

  2. 2013-14 figures estimated from a 10% sample of annual P14 returns

  3. 2017-18 figures not yet complete

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