HC Deb 20 May 1997 vol 294 cc41-2W
Mr. Redwood

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what powers the United Kingdom will have to amend or improve social and employment laws in the United Kingdom without the consent of the EC once it has signed the social chapter. [303]

Mr. Doug Henderson

Accepting the social chapter will not affect the UK's power to alter our own social and employment legislation except in so far as UK legislation will have to comply with measures adopted under these Treaty provisions in the same way that it already has to comply with other aspects of Community law.