On 15 January 2025, the cross-party Women and Equalities Committee published a report recommending that the Employment Rights Bill should be amended to provide a period of paid leave to all women and their partners who experience pregnancy loss before 24 weeks (Equality at Work: Miscarriage and Bereavement Leave). The report cites data estimating that more than one in five pregnancies end before 24 weeks, as well as clear evidence that the impacts of loss both pre and post 24 weeks are felt as bereavements. Although the Committee acknowledges that an increasing number of employers have pregnancy loss policies which include paid leave for women and their partners, the report highlights the case for a minimum legislative standard. The Committee’s proposed amendments would give employees who experience a pre-24 week pregnancy loss the same entitlements to leave and pay as are currently available to parents bereaved by the loss of children under 18 and babies after 24 weeks: two weeks leave, paid at the same rate as maternity, paternity and shared parental leave (currently £184.03 per week or 90% of average weekly earnings, whichever is lower). The Committee also proposes that the Government should work with organisations including the CIPD, Acas and the TUC to promote the benefits of pre-24 week pregnancy loss policies. A broad right to one week’s unpaid bereavement leave is currently included in the Employment Rights Bill, but the Government has not yet confirmed whether it intends to support the Committee’s latest proposal.