Clause 7 - funding of employers' liabilities
Employment Bill
6:00 pm
Mr Philip Hammond (Runnymede and Weybridge, Conservative)
I beg to move amendment No. 172, in page 22, line 4, at end add—
'(c) include provision for a person who has made a payment of statutory paternity pay or statutory adoption pay qualifying for small employers' relief to be entitled to recover such further sum in respect of his administrative expenses as the regulations shall provide'.
I had nothing to say on clause 6 because, I am disappointed to say, my substantive amendment to it—my comma—was not called.
The matter to which amendment No. 172 refers is one that we have dealt with already. Perhaps the timetabling was such that it could not be grouped with earlier amendments for a single debate. Given that we are under such pressure of time, it would probably be inappropriate to delay our proceedings by asking members of the Committee to consider an issue that we have already discussed. Therefore, I shall not press the amendment.