Annual leave: statutory minimum (weeks)

The statutory minimum paid holiday in weeks, being the two pots added together, capped at 28 days for anyone working more than five days a week.

5.6weeks

Derivation verified Derived Great Britain in force since 2009-04-01

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

Scope: 5.6 weeks is a minimum in WEEKS, and regulation 13A(3) caps the same aggregate at 28 DAYS — so a worker on a six-day week accrues 33.6 days under this figure and receives 28 (Annual leave: maximum days). The two limbs are Annual leave: basic entitlement (weeks) and Annual leave: additional entitlement (weeks); this record is only their sum (D14), and the build refuses a build in which the three disagree. It does NOT apply to an irregular-hours or part-year worker in a leave year beginning on or after 1 April 2024: they accrue hours under regulation 15B at 12.07% instead (Holiday accrual rate for irregular hours), which is a different entitlement and not a different spelling of this one. The two pots are also paid differently — the four weeks at the "normal" rate and the 1.6 at the "basic" rate — which is why the limbs are the records and this is the companion.

How it is worked out: Annual leave: basic entitlement (weeks) + Annual leave: additional entitlement (weeks) — recomputed from its corroborated inputs on every build.

Current sources

Source A · Legislationhttps://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2001/3256/made (Working Time Regulations 1998 reg 13(1), as substituted by SI 2001/3256 reg 2(2): "a worker is entitled to four weeks' annual leave in each leave year" — the first limb of this derivation; the 1998 Regulations state no total)

retrieved 2026-09-08

Source A · Legislationhttps://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2007/2079/made (SI 2007/2079 reg 2(2), inserting reg 13A into the 1998 Regulations, whose paragraph (2)(e) reads "in any leave year beginning on or after 1st April 2009, 1.6 weeks" — the second limb; the instrument's explanatory note describes the effect as an increase "from 4 weeks to 5.6 weeks", but no regulation says 5.6)

retrieved 2026-09-11

History

Value	From	To	Status	Sources
5.6	2009-04-01	—	Derivation verified	Legislation: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2001/3256/made (Working Time Regulations 1998 reg 13(1), as substituted by SI 2001/3256 reg 2(2): "a worker is entitled to four weeks' annual leave in each leave year" — the first limb of this derivation; the 1998 Regulations state no total) retrieved 2026-09-08 Legislation: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2007/2079/made (SI 2007/2079 reg 2(2), inserting reg 13A into the 1998 Regulations, whose paragraph (2)(e) reads "in any leave year beginning on or after 1st April 2009, 1.6 weeks" — the second limb; the instrument's explanatory note describes the effect as an increase "from 4 weeks to 5.6 weeks", but no regulation says 5.6) retrieved 2026-09-11

Receipt

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Record fields (source type · unit · jurisdiction · status): derived·weeks·GB·derivation_verified
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Compiler's notes

Not a figure any regulation states, which is the whole reason it is a derivation: SI 2007/2079's explanatory note describes the effect as an increase "from 4 weeks to 5.6 weeks", and an explanatory note is not the enacting text. GOV.UK states 5.6 weeks on the holiday guide, and it is right — but it is right as arithmetic, so the corpus publishes the arithmetic and recomputes it rather than quoting the total and letting it rot. Both limbs are cited as legislation. This is the second scalar ratio in the corpus, after the 1.6-week limb it reads.