Parental Pay: Adoption
(asked on 13th October 2022) - View Source
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what was the total number of claimants of Statutory Adoption Pay in each financial year since 2015-16.
Information provided by employers to HMRC show the number of individuals in receipt of Statutory Adoption Pay (SAP). This data provides a broad indication of SAP take-up but does not include anyone taking unpaid Statutory Adoption Leave.
Table 1: Individuals in receipt of SAP, 2015/16 to 2021/22 (the latest year for which full year data is available)
Year (April to March) | No. of individuals in receipt of SAP |
2015-16 | 5,500 |
2016-17 | 5,400 |
2017-18 | 4,900 |
2018-19 | 4,800 |
2019-20 | 4,900 |
2020-21 | 4,400 |
2021-22 | 4,600 |
- Figures are rounded to the nearest hundred.
Figures are based on the total number of individuals in a given year, irrespective of when the payment first started. Some individuals will be counted across two years.