HC Deb 30 March 1993 vol 222 c155
Q5. Mr. Dunn

To ask the Prime Minister what plans he has to pay an official visit to Hartley.

The Prime Minister

I am making plans for a series of visits to all parts of the country and I visited my hon. Friend's constituency last Friday.

Mr. Dunn

Is the Prime Minister aware that the people of Hartley are fully behind the Government's plans to reform the National Union of Students and that they are interested in knowing his views on the role of trade unions in our modern political society?

The Prime Minister

Trade unions do have an important and mature role in our society. Their role ought to be to look after the interests of their members—not to align themselves particularly with a political party, not to throw votes behind the leadership of that party, not to provide the finance for that party, and not to sponsor every Front-Bench Member of the Opposition.

Forward to