The Government has bowed to peers over demands to change the wording of legislation allowing ministers to take paid maternity leave from “person” to “mother”.
All sides of the Lords were fiercely critical of the use of the word person, instead of woman, throughout the Ministerial and Other Maternity Allowances Bill.
After accusations that this amounted to “abandoning women”, Cabinet minister Lord True said the Government was willing to accept a cross-party amendment to the legislation.
The change will remove references to “person” in the Bill and replace them with “mother or expectant mother”.
The Bill is being rushed through Parliament to allow Attorney General Suella Braverman to take six months away from her post following the pending birth of her second child.
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