Clause 7 - Entitlement to additional statutory paternity pay: adoption
Work and Families Bill
12:45 pm
Gerry Sutcliffe (Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Employment Relations and Consumer Affairs), Department of Trade and Industry; Bradford South, Labour)
I beg to move amendment No. 18, in clause 7, page 6, line 11, leave out ‘adoption’ and insert ‘paternity’.
This Government amendment is designed to correct an error in the drafting of the Bill. Clause 7(1) refers to “additional statutory adoption pay”, but it should read additional statutory paternity pay. In the case of an adoption, it will allow the eligible partner of an adopter to receive additional statutory paternity pay.