Maternity Allowance and Parental Pay

(asked on 19th October 2021) - View Source

Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 16 September 2021 to Question 45154 on Maternity Allowance and Parental Pay, if he will conduct a review of the accuracy and reliability of the data relating to the annual number of claimants of (a) statutory maternity pay, (b) statutory paternity pay and (c) statutory shared parental pay provided by HM Revenue & Customs.


Answered by
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Lucy Frazer
Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport
This question was answered on 27th October 2021

The information held by HMRC in relation to statutory payments is collected through an employer’s monthly PAYE returns. HMRC aim to limit the collection of information from employers to what is required for assuring PAYE. Information which could identify new parents is not necessary for HMRC’s PAYE collection processes. There are no plans review the data.

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