Harriet Harman MP


Harriet Harman on parental leave

Harriet Harman MP, former Deputy Leader of the Labour Party and MP for Camberwell and Peckham said:

“Women are the biggest ‘consumers’ of council services. Most council employees are women. Yet women are still very much in a minority on councils and nearly all council leaders are men.

It’s important to continue to work to change the way councils work to ensure that women’s voices are heard and to increase the number of women councillors. Introducing parental leave is important to back up younger women on councils in continuing to play their part during their child bearing/adopting years and I hope councils up and down the country will adopt this policy.”