HC Deb 24 April 1990 vol 171 c185W
74. Mr. Dykes

To ask the Secretary of State for Employment when he next expects to meet his European Community counterparts to discuss the employment aspects of the European Commission's range of social charter proposals.

Mr. Howard

The first formal proposals from the European Commission's social action programme are not expected to be published until May or June; substantive discussion of these proposals by the Labour and Social Affairs Councils is therefore unlikely to take place until the last quarter of the year.