Annual leave: basic entitlement (weeks)

The four weeks of paid holiday regulation 13 gives every worker — the bigger of the two pots that make up the 5.6-week minimum.

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Corroborated Statutory Instrument Great Britain in force since 2001-10-25

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

Scope: Four weeks is what REGULATION 13 states, and it is not the statutory minimum. Regulation 13A(2)(e) adds a further 1.6 weeks of additional leave in any leave year beginning on or after 1 April 2009, and the familiar 5.6 weeks is those two pots added together — arithmetic, so it is a D14 derivation and a separate record, never this one. Regulation 13A(3)'s 28-day cap on the aggregate is a third figure. The OVERVIEW of GOV.UK's holiday guide states only the 5.6 total and would corroborate neither pot; the sentence registered here is from the same guide's Holiday pay part, which is where GOV.UK separates the 4 weeks from the 1.6 — and it is registered for the 4, not for the pay rate the sentence is about.

Current sources

Source A · Legislationhttps://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2001/3256/made (SI 2001/3256 reg 2(2): "The following paragraph shall be substituted for paragraph (1)-" a new paragraph (1) reading "Subject to paragraph (5), a worker is entitled to four weeks' annual leave in each leave year"; in force 25 October 2001, reg 1(1))

retrieved 2026-09-08

Source B · Official guidancehttps://www.gov.uk/holiday-entitlement-rights/holiday-pay (under "'Basic' and 'normal' rate of pay", what employers must pay regular-hours workers: "at least 4 weeks of the worker's statutory entitlement at their 'normal' rate of pay" and "the remaining 1.6 weeks at a 'basic' rate of pay")

retrieved 2026-09-09

History

Value	From	To	Status	Sources
4	2001-10-25	—	Corroborated	Legislation: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2001/3256/made (SI 2001/3256 reg 2(2): "The following paragraph shall be substituted for paragraph (1)-" a new paragraph (1) reading "Subject to paragraph (5), a worker is entitled to four weeks' annual leave in each leave year"; in force 25 October 2001, reg 1(1)) retrieved 2026-09-08 Official guidance: https://www.gov.uk/holiday-entitlement-rights/holiday-pay (under "'Basic' and 'normal' rate of pay", what employers must pay regular-hours workers: "at least 4 weeks of the worker's statutory entitlement at their 'normal' rate of pay" and "the remaining 1.6 weeks at a 'basic' rate of pay") retrieved 2026-09-09

Receipt

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Figure ID: employment.working_time.annual_leave_weeks
Name in the API: Annual leave: the regulation 13 weeks
Record fields (source type · unit · jurisdiction · status): si·weeks·GB·corroborated
Record hash (canonical JSON, SHA-256): sha256:aab6bf9d6df488486f5833db8caf3a9c6403e0532edf394c661e9a0a4cd016ff
Source snapshots (SHA-256): Legislation: sha256:01ca677667953b30ccdbba7f250e4020e3581590f9f8da1e287a16ab3ecd2de3; Official guidance: sha256:994fe08336d531cc8135d0560bde3cbcc59fb00387d633261ed40a22455446b3
Listed in the signed manifest: release 3.0.0 manifest · record_hashes["employment.working_time.annual_leave_weeks"]
Machine-readable record: /v1/figures/employment.working_time.annual_leave_weeks · current only: /v1/figures/employment.working_time.annual_leave_weeks/current

Compiler's notes

An SI carry (ADR-0014): SI 2001/3256 reg 2(2) substituted paragraph (1) WHOLE ("The following paragraph shall be substituted for paragraph (1)"), so there is no value-level substitution for NF-1 to re-derive and the new paragraph carries no provision id in the amender's as-made document. The evidence is the pair: the 1998 Regulations' current view and SI 2001/3256 as made, both hashed and recomputed at Gate 2. Note what the probe is and is not saying — regulation 13 has been amended repeatedly since 2001 (paragraph (2) omitted, (A1) inserted, (14) to (18) added), but nothing has touched paragraph (1) itself, which is the provision this value sits in. One value only: the amending instrument's own explanatory note records that it also revoked the provisions limiting the entitlement to workers continuously employed for thirteen weeks and the spent provisions for leave years beginning before 23 November 1999, so there is history here — and it waits for a parser that can read a block substitution.