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Statutory Parental Bereavement Pay: weeks payable

How many weeks of Statutory Parental Bereavement Pay a parent can claim for each child.

2weeks

Corroborated Statutory Instrument Great Britain in force since 2020-04-06

Checked against its sources: statute verified 2026-09-21·guidance verified 2026-09-21

Scope: Two weeks per child, payable to each parent who qualifies. The rate is a separate figure. The matching two weeks of Parental Bereavement LEAVE is a different entitlement in different Regulations; GOV.UK's combined guide states the two weeks as leave, and that is the sentence registered as corroboration here, since the page states no separate duration for pay.

Current sources

Source A · Legislationhttps://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2020/233/made (SI 2020/233 reg 5 as made: "The number of weeks in respect of which a person is entitled to payments of statutory parental bereavement pay is two weeks"; the Regulations apply in respect of children who die on or after 6 April 2020, reg 2)

retrieved 2026-09-08

Source B · Official guidancehttps://www.gov.uk/parental-bereavement-pay-leave ("You can take 2 weeks' leave from the first day of your employment for each child who has died or was stillborn if you're eligible")

retrieved 2026-07-29

History

Value	From	To	Status	Sources
2	2020-04-06	—	Corroborated	Legislation: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2020/233/made (SI 2020/233 reg 5 as made: "The number of weeks in respect of which a person is entitled to payments of statutory parental bereavement pay is two weeks"; the Regulations apply in respect of children who die on or after 6 April 2020, reg 2) retrieved 2026-09-08 Official guidance: https://www.gov.uk/parental-bereavement-pay-leave ("You can take 2 weeks' leave from the first day of your employment for each child who has died or was stillborn if you're eligible") retrieved 2026-07-29

Receipt

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Name in the API: Statutory Parental Bereavement Pay: weeks
Record fields (source type · unit · jurisdiction · status): si·weeks·GB·corroborated
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Machine-readable record: /v1/figures/employment.spbp.weeks · current only: /v1/figures/employment.spbp.weeks/current

Compiler's notes

An SI carry (ADR-0014), and a HOST-STATES one: no textual amendment touches regulation 5, so the 2020 Regulations state the value by their own words and their as-made text is its own frozen witness. That is what the probe checks — ANY touching F-note would mean the host's own made text is not what states today's value, and the record would have to name the amender instead.