Clause 3 - Adoption Leave
Employment Bill
12:45 pm
Mr Alan Johnson (Minister of State (Employment and the Regions), Department of Trade and Industry; Kingston upon Hull West and Hessle, Labour)
The strict terms of the amendment would exclude parents who adopt children from overseas and I ask the Committee to reject it. We have been through the arguments.
On the precise point of why we used that formulation in the drafting—the hon. Gentleman made a fair point about the drafting elsewhere—we have used standard drafting practice for employment law, which does not go into detail in primary legislation. For example, on parental leave eligibility is left to regulations and on social security law—