§ 20. Mr. Garel-JonesTo ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what representations he has received from business leaders regarding the social chapter. [711]
§ Mr. WaldegraveBusiness leaders have indicated that they consider employment legislation to be one of the most burdensome types of regulation in a recent Union of Industrial and Employers Confederations of Europe, UNICE, survey. A further survey last summer by the European Enterprise Centre showed that two thirds of Europe's smaller companies were worried that higher costs resulting from the social chapter would make them less competitive.