Work and Families Bill

They are not in this Bill, but they are in the Turner report, and we will have to wait for the response to Turner. As I said earlier, the Bill is about genuine choice. If a mother’s genuine choice is to stay at home with her child, that is fine—that is exactly as it should be. However, we do not want women being forced to stay at home because they have no alternative and having to give up their career. Nor do employers want that; it is bad for society and for the employment market in general, but it happened quite regularly before these measures were introduced.