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HANSARDEmployment Rights BillI will read it again. Amendment 139 would make statutory paternity pay a day-one right. Currently, no parental pay entitlements are available from day one, including maternity pay.13 May 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights BillWe are planning and conducting the review within the first year of the Labour Government. It would be premature to make further legislation in this space before the parental leave…13 May 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights BillI thank the noble Lord for that intervention, and I will speak to my officials and write to all noble Lords accordingly regarding the review. We understand the concerns raised by…13 May 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights BillI thank the noble Baroness for that. That is the situation as it is now. Until and unless things change, that is what is happening. Depending on individual circumstances,…13 May 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights BillI thank the noble Baroness for that. As I said in my previous paragraph, we are making day-one rights such as this and consulting, and the review will look at all the issues that…13 May 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill08 May 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights BillI hear what the noble Baroness has said. The Bill has gone through the other House and been scrutinised line by line. We have also taken the point on board here and we will…08 May 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights BillI thank the noble Lord for giving way. I appreciate what he has said. We are all for parliamentary scrutiny of the Bill—we welcome it. We welcome every single amendment and clause…08 May 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights BillI just want to clarify that we are still sticking to seven days, and the recess I mean is the Whitsun Recess at the end of this month. It will come back.08 May 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights BillI am not sure about that. Basically, we do not want to be too prescriptive and define what reasonableness is, because it varies from case to case and company to company. There…08 May 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights BillI give the noble Lord my commitment that it is very much a work in progress.08 May 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights BillI am sure that the noble Lord will be happy to hear that I will consult with everybody as widely as possible, including him. We can have further conversations to explain the…08 May 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights BillTo a certain extent, we are not ruling anything in or out. We are basically saying that we will be consulting with all stakeholders. I take the noble Lord’s point—yes, the…08 May 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights BillAlthough the noble Lord expects me to give him a specific timeframe, I cannot do so now. I will consult with my officials and come back to him.08 May 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights BillMy Lords, before I address the amendments in this group, I take this opportunity to refer to the letter I wrote regarding the algebraic formula. There are existing formulae in…08 May 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill08 May 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill08 May 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights BillI take the noble Lord’s point. At the rate the Bill is going, we may reach recess before we come back again to discuss it further.08 May 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights BillMy Lords, I thank the noble Lords, Lord Hunt and Lord Goddard, for their contributions, and the noble Lord, Lord Sharpe of Epsom, for tabling the amendments in this group,…08 May 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights BillI thank the noble and right reverend Lord for his intervention. I can say only that I thought we were all agreed that flexibility is a good thing, and I am sure we do not want…08 May 2025