Parental Pay

(asked on 15th May 2019) - View Source
Questioner
Peter Dowd Portrait
Peter Dowd
(Labour - Bootle)

Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many people in employment claimed (a) statutory paternity pay and (b) statutory shared parental pay in each year since 2015.

Answered by
Elizabeth Truss Portrait
Elizabeth Truss
This question was answered on 20th May 2019

The number of Statutory Paternity Pay (SPP) and Statutory Shared Parental Pay (ShPP) claimants in the last five years can be found in the table below:

Tax Year

Number of SPP Claimants

Number of ShPP Claimants

15/16

215,100

6,200

16/17

219,900

8,600

17/18

212,700

9,200

18/19

202,800

10,700

Notes:

  1. Data collected using HMRC Real Time Information (RTI) and extracted in May 2019. RTI is subject to revision or updates.

  2. Figures have been rounded to the nearest hundred.

  3. In the 2015/16 tax year, those receiving Additional Statutory Paternity Pay (ASPP) for children born before 6 April 2015 cannot be distinguished from those claiming ShPP within RTI data.

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