Oral Question·Women and Equalities
“If she will make a statement on her departmental responsibilities.”
Tabled: 1 July 2021Answered: 7 July 2021
Answering Minister
the Minister for Women and Equalities
Answer from Hansard
The Prime Minister
I wish my hon. Friend and his wife well with their new arrival. We are conducting a review into parental leave, because we cannot grow the economy if parents have to choose between work and their children. Thanks to the Employment Rights Bill, which the Conservatives oppose, 30,000 more fathers will get paternity leave. That is the difference: the Leader of the Opposition wants to roll back parental rights; we are extending them.