Maternity Leave: Childbirth

(asked on 3rd March 2020) - View Source

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

What plans he has to introduce extended maternity leave for mothers of premature babies.


Answered by
Paul Scully Portrait
Paul Scully
This question was answered on 3rd March 2020

The Government is committed to supporting working parents.

We recognise the particular challenges faced by parents of over 100,000 babies admitted into neonatal care each year, many of whom are born prematurely.

Our Manifesto committed to give parents of babies in neonatal care a new entitlement to paid leave from work.

Following our consultation on this last year, we are analysing the responses as a priority and will set out our plans soon.

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