A parity puncturing apparatus and method for variable length signaling information are disclosed. A parity puncturing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention includes memory configured to provide a parity bit string for parity puncturing for the parity bits of an LDPC codeword whose length is 16200 and whose code rate is 3/15, and a processor configured to puncture a number of bits corresponding to a final puncturing size from the rear side of the parity bit string.