Biography
Lord Jones of Penybont raised maternity and paternity leave provisions during a speech on the Employment Rights Bill in July 2025. He drew on personal experience, describing his mother's limited paid maternity leave in 1967 and his father's untrained provision of physiotherapy care to him as an infant without statutory entitlement to time off. The contribution highlighted historical gaps in parental support arrangements.
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“…I was born in 1967. My mother received a less than generous 12 weeks of paid maternity leave. I was born with a condition that required me to have physiotherapy twice a day every day for the first two years of my life.”
Record by topic
- Maternity & neonatal363rd of 4382.0