Parental Pay

(asked on 13th March 2023) - View Source
Questioner
Baroness Lister of Burtersett Portrait
Baroness Lister of Burtersett
(Labour - Life peer)

Question to the Department for Business and Trade:

To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the remarks by Baroness Scott of Bybrook on 8 March (HL Deb col 793), where she stated that "the number of couples taking up shared parental leave and pay is increasing year on year; last year it was at 13,000", what was the total number of claimants of Statutory Shared Parental Pay in each year since 2015–16, broken down by gender.

Answered by
Portrait
Lord Johnson of Lainston
Minister of State (Department for Business and Trade)
This question was answered on 31st March 2023

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

Table 1: Individuals in receipt of ShPP by gender, 2015/16 to 2021/22

Year (April to March)

No. of individuals in receipt of ShPP

Women

Men

Total

2015-16

1,100

5,100

6,200

2016-17

1,600

7,100

8,600

2017-18

1,700

7,500

9,200

2018-19

2,200

8,500

10,700

2019-20

2,600

9,900

12,600

2020-21

2,600

8,600

11,200

2021-22

3,200

9,800

13,000

  1. Figures are rounded to the nearest hundred.
  2. 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.
  3. For 2015-16, those receiving Additional Statutory Paternity Pay cannot be distinguished from those claiming ShPP.

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