HC Deb 19 May 1988 vol 133 c537W
18. Mr. Teddy Taylor

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what progress has been made in discussing summer time arrangements in the European Economic Community since the debate on 28 April; and if he will make a statement.

Mr. Douglas Hogg

Discussions with other member states of the European Community are not expected to take place until later in the summer, when a proposal for a directive on summer time arrangements for 1990 onwards will be tabled by the European Commission.