Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many people were in receipt of (a) Statutory Maternity Pay, (b) Statutory Paternity Pay, (c) Statutory Adoption Pay and (d) Statutory Shared Parental Pay in the (i) 2024-25 and (ii) 2025-2026 financial year.

Counts of employees receiving Statutory Maternity Pay, Statutory

Paternity Pay, Statutory Adoption Pay, and Statutory Shared Parental Pay for tax years 2024-25 and 2025-26 are included in the table below.

Table 1 – Claims by Statutory Payment.

Notes:

1) Data collected using HMRC Real Time Information (RTI) and extracted in July 2026. RTI is subject to revision or updates.

2) Counts of claims have been rounded to nearest 100.

3) Figures may not sum to totals due to rounding.