And if so, can someone help me work it out??? 
I've read the info on the gov.uk website several times, and looked it up elsewhere, but still can't work out if we're eligible, or how SPL impacts if the mother has additional maternity pay from her employer.
Our situation:
Both DH and I currently employed, earn over the threshold and will continue to be employed with same employers until after baby's due date. I am then planning on taking 6 months off. I get additional maternity pay from my employer during this time. We'd then like DH to get the rest of my 'unused' statutory maternity pay (about 13 weeks, I think). However, DH is planning to leave his job and go freelance about 2 or 3 weeks after the baby is born, until I go back to work, at which point he'll stop and look after DC. Does that disqualify us from SPL? (And if so, how bloody unfair!).
Neither of our employers seems any more clued up than we are about how this works (and DH works at tiny company with no HR department anyway, so they just figure out this kind of stuff as they go along!)