Member

If I may say a quick word on Amendment 135, I declare an interest as vice-chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Young Carers and Young Adult Carers. This amendment would change the Carer’s Leave Act, which did not include remuneration as a matter that had to be considered in the employment contract. I note that, during the passage of the Carer’s Leave Act in the last Parliament—via a Private Member’s Bill supported by the then Government—the then Opposition and now Government challenged the previous Government on why they were not introducing carer’s leave as a paid entitlement. At Second Reading of the Carer’s Leave Bill in the Lords, the noble Baroness, Lady Blake, responding from Labour’s Front Bench, said: