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Provide Statutory Parental Pay to both Parents

Submitted on Tuesday 25th July 2023

Rejected on Thursday 27th July 2023

Current status: Rejected

Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)

Petition Action

Provide Statutory Parental Pay to both Parents

Petition Details

Both parents should be provided with the opportunity to take parental leave (maternity or paternity) and receive payment without impacting each other.

Additional Information

Less females in top positions - often due to career gap for maternity and subsequent reduction in hours for ongoing support
Dads/ second parent are not provided opportunity to have paid time off with little one without impacting mums time/ pay
Wealth of evidence that children benefit from a two person household


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This petition was rejected

The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:

There's already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.

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You may wish to sign the following petition, which calls for a similar action:

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/638109

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