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.
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:
Data collected using HMRC Real Time Information (RTI) and extracted in May 2019. RTI is subject to revision or updates.
Figures have been rounded to the nearest hundred.
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.