Clause 4 - Statutory adoption pay
Employment Bill
5:00 pm
Mr Philip Hammond (Runnymede and Weybridge, Conservative)
I am grateful to the Minister for his example, because it is rather better than any that I had thought of. However, it does not help his case. The logic of his example of two women living together who both give birth and are entitled to statutory maternity pay is that two people living together who adopt two children should both be entitled to adoption pay.
We are under pressure of time. Having probed the Minister on his intentions, I beg to ask leave to withdraw the amendment.
Amendment, by leave, withdrawn.