Current status: Answered by Siobhian Brown on 22 May 2025
To ask the Scottish Government what its position is on whether increasing maternity pay for firefighters to 52 weeks would attract more women to join the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service.
Attraction, recruitment and retention are a matter for the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service (SFRS). The Scottish Government Fire and Rescue Framework 2022 asks SFRS to actively strive to be an organisation that is more representative of the people and communities of Scotland that it serves.