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

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, pursuant to the Prime Minister's Answer of 20 February to the Honourable Member for Glasgow East, HC 1467, by which date his Department will have completed the short, focused internal review of provision for parents of premature, sick and multiple babies to obtain an understanding of the barriers to participating in the labour market.

Officials in the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy have now completed the preliminary work on the internal review of the provisions for parents of premature, sick and multiple babies. The purpose of this exercise was to provide initial advice to Ministers, including identifying potential areas for further work.

I will consider this advice and expect to be a position to say more about next steps in due course.