Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many male staff of his Department have taken shared parental leave; and what the average length of that leave was.
Since the creation of the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (July 2016), 35 of our male employees have taken Shared Parental Leave.
The average length of Shared Parental Leave taken by those male employees has been 90 days.