Clause 1 - Paternity leave
Employment Bill
6:30 pm
Mr Philip Hammond (Runnymede and Weybridge, Conservative)
Does the hon. Gentleman agree that if the Minister finds difficulties over the single-period argument, there is nothing to stop him removing from subsection (3) of proposed section 80A the prescriptive requirement for a single period? Even if those words were removed from the Bill, nothing would stop him making a subsequent regulation that included those words. Part of our objection, in relation to amendment No. 98, is that writing ''single period'' into the Bill would give the Minister no chance to change the regulations, even if it became apparent that that was the way to go.