§ 96. Ms. MowlamTo ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if the United Kingdom will continue to refuse to support a social dimension for the internal market of the European Community.
§ Mrs. ChalkerWe will continue to support EC social measures designed to stimulate job creation and reduce unemployment. We shall resist those which would impose excessive regulatory burdens on business and thus run counter to job creation. As EC Heads of Government agreed at Hanover, completion of the single market will help counter the Community's main social problem, unemployment.