UK Parliament / Open data

Children and Families Bill

Proceeding contribution from Tim Loughton (Conservative) in the House of Commons on Monday, 25 February 2013. It occurred during Debate on bills on Children and Families Bill.

Does the shadow Secretary of State not acknowledge that what was proposed and became law in Australia was very different from what is being proposed here? Anything that can, in any way, be interpreted as meaning equality of time would not work. That is why the wording in the Bill, which has taken a lot of work and effort, is absolutely not a presumption about equality of time, but a presumption that all of us must surely agree that a child does best when both parents have as much involvement in the childhood of that child as possible, subject to the welfare provisions, which absolutely still stay paramount in the Bill. Why, yet again, do Labour Members not recognise that there is a problem and that at last we have legislation trying to address it?

About this proceeding contribution

Reference

559 c67 

Session

2012-13

Chamber / Committee

House of Commons chamber
Back to top