HC Deb 22 March 1993 vol 221 c492W
Mr. Pope

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what consultations he had with the European Commission prior to issuing guidance on the implications for compulsory competitive tendering of the Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations 1981.

Mr. Robin Squire

None. My right hon. and learned Friend's statement on 11 March,Official Report, column 662, principally concerned the use of his powers relating to compulsory competitive tendering under part I of the Local Government Act 1988. This is not a matter with which the European Commission is directly concerned.

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