Annual leave: maximum days

The ceiling in days on the statutory annual leave entitlement, which bites on anyone working more than five days a week.

28days

Corroborated Statutory Instrument Great Britain in force since 2007-10-01

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

Scope: A CAP, not an entitlement: a worker who works six days a week accrues 5.6 weeks = 33.6 days under regulations 13 and 13A and receives 28. A worker on five days a week accrues 28 and is unaffected. This is the only statutory annual-leave figure stated in DAYS — the two pots themselves are stated in weeks (Annual leave: basic entitlement (weeks) is the regulation 13 four) and the familiar 5.6 weeks is their sum, which is arithmetic and a separate record. From 1 January 2024 regulation 15B(4) puts a separate 28-day ceiling on an irregular-hours or part-year worker's accrual; that is a different provision for a different class of worker and is not this record.

Current sources

Source A · Legislationhttps://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2007/2079/made (SI 2007/2079 reg 2(2): "After regulation 13 (entitlement to annual leave), insert-" a new regulation 13A whose paragraph (3) reads "The aggregate entitlement provided for in paragraph (2) and regulation 13(1) is subject to a maximum of 28 days"; in force 1 October 2007, reg 1(2))

retrieved 2026-09-11

Source B · Official guidancehttps://www.gov.uk/holiday-entitlement-rights/holiday-pay (under "Limits on statutory leave": "Statutory paid holiday entitlement is limited to 28 days. For example, staff working 6 days a week are only entitled to 28 days' paid holiday")

retrieved 2026-09-09

History

Value	From	To	Status	Sources
28	2007-10-01	—	Corroborated	Legislation: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2007/2079/made (SI 2007/2079 reg 2(2): "After regulation 13 (entitlement to annual leave), insert-" a new regulation 13A whose paragraph (3) reads "The aggregate entitlement provided for in paragraph (2) and regulation 13(1) is subject to a maximum of 28 days"; in force 1 October 2007, reg 1(2)) retrieved 2026-09-11 Official guidance: https://www.gov.uk/holiday-entitlement-rights/holiday-pay (under "Limits on statutory leave": "Statutory paid holiday entitlement is limited to 28 days. For example, staff working 6 days a week are only entitled to 28 days' paid holiday") retrieved 2026-09-09

Receipt

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Figure ID: employment.working_time.annual_leave_days_cap
Name in the API: Annual leave: cap on the aggregate entitlement (days)
Record fields (source type · unit · jurisdiction · status): si·days·GB·corroborated
Record hash (canonical JSON, SHA-256): sha256:8a6de9b352c57c446c491753dd11ef2dc6450fb757215da5769faaf2dcceac9f
Source snapshots (SHA-256): Legislation: sha256:816e914063bf93fb0acd327953d7b3446759b5168d9e48b9c943ddc7a2532a55; Official guidance: sha256:994fe08336d531cc8135d0560bde3cbcc59fb00387d633261ed40a22455446b3
Listed in the signed manifest: release 3.0.0 manifest · record_hashes["employment.working_time.annual_leave_days_cap"]
Machine-readable record: /v1/figures/employment.working_time.annual_leave_days_cap · current only: /v1/figures/employment.working_time.annual_leave_days_cap/current

Compiler's notes

An SI carry (ADR-0014): SI 2007/2079 reg 2(2) INSERTED regulation 13A whole, so there is no value-level substitution for NF-1 to re-derive and the inserted text carries no provision id of its own in the amender's as-made document. The evidence is the pair: the 1998 Regulations' current view, where the value is today, and SI 2007/2079 as made, the frozen witness that put it there. One value only: nothing preceded this cap, because nothing preceded regulation 13A.