Fire and Rescue parental leave

I would please like to know (for the Fire and Rescue Service):

1) Your parental leave policies, including paternity leave and pay and maternity leave and pay. If you have different policies for firefighters and non-firefighter staff, please include both

2) In the last three years for which you have data, how many staff members were eligible for paternity leave?

3) In the last three years for which you have data, how many staff members took paternity leave, and for how many weeks on average?

4) In the last three years for which you have data, what was the average salary for staff who were eligible for paternity leave? (If it is not possible to provide this, please provide the average salary for all the organisation's staff instead)

For queries 2 - 4, please provide separate data for firefighter and non-firefighter staff, but if this is not possible, please provide combined data for both instead.

1. Please see attached the Grey book which details the Maternity and Paternity policy for Firefighters (Wholetime and Retained), Also the Lincolnshire County Council (LCC) policy for non-Firefighter staff who are Green book which is the Family Leave policy.

Should you require the attachments mentioned above please contact customerinformationservice@lincolnshire.gov.uk with the below reference number and this can be provided.

2. In line with legislation this would be all members of staff employed by Lincolnshire Fire and Rescue (LFR). The only eligibility would be "have been continuously employed for at least 26 weeks by the end of the 15th week before the expected week of childbirth"

LFR Employments of all staff : 

• November 2025 = 708
• December 2024 = 714
• December 2023 = 673

3.

• 2023 = 10 on average 2 weeks
• 2024 = 9 on average 2 weeks
• 2025 = 13 on average 2 weeks

4. Please see the links below to the pay scales for the last three years for fire fighters.

Pay settlement 2023 | Fire Brigades Union

https://www.fbu.org.uk/pay-rates/pay-settlement-2023

Pay settlement 2024 | Fire Brigades Union

https://www.fbu.org.uk/pay-rates/pay-settlement-2024

Pay settlement 2025 | Fire Brigades Union

https://www.fbu.org.uk/pay-rates/pay-settlement-2025

For non-firefighters please see below :

Pay policy statement – Lincolnshire County Council

https://www.lincolnshire.gov.uk/employment-policies/pay-policy-statement