FOI release

Freedom of Information request - Parental leave policies

Case reference FOI2025/01392

Received 9 December 2025

Published 16 January 2026

Request

I would please like to know: 1) Your parental leave policies, including paternity leave and pay and maternity leave and pay. If you have different policies for firefighters and non-firefighter staff, please include both 2) In the last three years for which you have data, how many staff members were eligible for paternity leave? 3) In the last three years for which you have data, how many staff members took paternity leave, and for how many weeks on average? 4) In the last three years for which you have data, what was the average salary for staff who were eligible for paternity leave? (If it is not possible to provide this, please provide the average salary for all the organisation’s staff instead) For queries 2 - 4, please provide separate data for firefighter and non-firefighter staff, but if this is not possible, please provide combined data for both instead.

Response

Please see the response in the link below.

Documents

• FOIA response for disclosure log - FOI2025_01392.pdf (755.4 KB)

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