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In which circumstances is an employee entitled to receive ordinary statutory paternity pay? In which circumstances is an employee entitled to receive additional statutory paternity pay? Under the statutory provisions can an employee take less than a week's ordinary paternity leave? For how many weeks may an employee be paid additional statutory paternity pay? What information must an employee applying to take statutory additional paternity pay provide in a birth situation? How should an employer respond to an employee's notice of intention to take additional paternity leave and pay? What information must an employee who is adopting a child from within the UK provide when applying to take additional statutory paternity pay? For the purposes of entitlement to statutory additional paternity leave, in what circumstances is the mother treated as having returned to work? How much notice of intention to take additional paternity leave and pay is an employee required to give? To how much additional paternity pay is an employee entitled if the mother returns to work with, for example, six weeks' statutory maternity pay remaining, but the employee does not begin additional paternity leave until two weeks later? Where an employee's wife or partner has given birth to twins, will he be entitled to two periods of additional paternity leave and pay? If a woman with an expected week of childbirth beginning on or after 3 April 2011 gives birth before 3 April, will her partner lose any potential entitlement to statutory additional paternity leave and pay? If a woman with an expected week of childbirth beginning before 3 April 2011 gives birth on or after 3 April, will her partner potentially become entitled to statutory additional paternity leave and pay? Does an employee still qualify for additional statutory paternity pay if the employee leaves the employment before the additional paternity leave is due to start? If an employee who qualifies for additional paternity pay is dismissed as redundant should he be paid his full additional paternity pay entitlement? Can an employer recover any additional statutory paternity pay that it pays out? Can an employee take on paid work during additional paternity leave? Will an employee be paid during statutory adoption leave? When is an employee entitled to receive statutory adoption pay? For how long is statutory adoption pay payable?