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Statutory Parental Bereavement Pay

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Question for Department for Business and Trade

UIN 168047, tabled on 17 March 2023

Question

Angela Rayner
Labour
Ashton-under-Lyne
Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, how many people received statutory parental bereavement pay between 1 January and 31 December 2022.

This answer is the replacement for a previous holding answer.

Answer

Kevin Hollinrake
Conservative
Thirsk and Malton
Commons

Answered on

30 March 2023

HM Revenue and Customs receives Statutory Parental Bereavement Pay (SPBP) data through employers’ Pay As You Earn submissions via the Real Time Information system. However, reliable data on the number of recipients of SPBP is not currently available and will be subject to further data quality checks before it can be provided.

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